1551 in science
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Astronomy
- Publication of Erasmus Reinhold's ephemeris, the Tabulae prutenicae, helping to disseminate Copernican methods of astronomical calculation.
Botany
- Bolognese naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi begins to collect plants for a herbarium.
- William Turner publishes the first part of A New Herball, wherin are conteyned the names of herbes... in London.
Mathematics
- Georg Joachim Rheticus publishes Canon of the Science of Triangles.
Medicine
- By July â Fifth and last outbreak of sweating sickness in England. Dr. John Caius writes the first full contemporary account of the symptoms of the disease.[1]
- Conrad Gessner is the first to describe adipose tissue.[2]
Zoology
- Pierre Belon publishes Histoire naturelle des estranges poissons.
- Conrad Gessner begins publication of his encyclopedic illustrated Historiae animalium in Zurich.
Publications
- MartÃn Cortés de Albacar publishes Breve compendio de la esfera y del arte de navegar in Spain, an influential work in cosmography, proposing spherical charts and mentioning magnetic deviation and the existence of magnetic poles.[3]
Births
- approx. date â Timothy Bright, English physician (died 1615)
Deaths
- April 6 â Joachim Vadian, Swiss physician and polymath (born 1484)
- May 6 â Johannes Baptista Montanus Italian physician and humanist (born 1498)
- August 8 â Fray Tomás de Berlanga, Spanish Bishop of Panama and discoverer of the Galápagos Islands (born 1487)