1561 in science
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The year 1561 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.
Cartography and navigation
- Bartolomeu Velho produces a Carta General do Orbe for Sebastian of Portugal.
- Richard Eden translates MartÃn Cortés de Albacar's Arte de navigar as The Arte of Navigation which becomes the first manual of navigation in English.[1]
Medicine and physiology
- Gabriele Falloppio publishes Observationes anatomicae in Venice, the only work of his printed during his lifetime.[2]
- Ambroise Paré publishes Anatomie universelle du corps humain and La méthode curative des playes et fractures de la test humaine in Paris.
- Smallpox epidemic in Chile.
Births
- January 6 â Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician (died 1656)
- January 22 â Francis Bacon, English philosopher of science (died 1626)
- March 29 â Sanctorius, Istrian physiologist (died 1636)
- August 4 â John Harington, English inventor (died 1612)
- August 24 â Bartholomaeus Pitiscus, German trigonometrist (died 1613)
- August 25 â Philippe van Lansberge, Flemish astronomer (died 1632)
- September 29 â Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (died 1615)
- October 8 (bapt.) â Edward Wright, English mathematician (died 1615)