1555 in science
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The year 1555 CE in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.
Biology
- Pierre Belon publishes L'Histoire de la nature des oyseaux, a pioneering work in the comparative anatomy of birds.[1]
Exploration
- Richard Eden publishes The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India, a translation into English of parts of Pietro Martire d'Anghiera's De orbe novo decades, the Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés work Natural hystoria de las Indias and others.[2]
- Guillaume Le Testu's Cosmographie Universelle selon les navigateurs, tant anciens que modernes contains maps of Terra Australis.
Mathematics
- Petrus Ramus publishes Arithmétique.
- First German translation of Euclid's elements by Johann Scheubel.
Births
- June 13 â Giovanni Antonio Magini, Italian astronomer (died 1617)
- Andreas Libavius, German physician (died 1616)
Deaths
- January 14 â Jacques Dubois, French anatomist (born 1478)
- May 25 â Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (born 1508)
- June 23 â Pedro Mascarenhas, Portuguese explorer (born 1470)
- August 8 â Oronce Finé, French mathematician and cartographer (born 1494)
- October 5 â Edward Wotton, English zoologist (born 1492)
- November 21 â Georgius Agricola, German metallurgist (born 1490)
- Petrus Gyllius, French traveller and ichthyologist (born 1490)