1563 in science
The year 1563 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.
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Medicine and physiology
- June–October – Outbreak of bubonic plague in London kills over 20,000.[1]
- Bartolomeo Eustachi publishes De Renibus (including his discovery of the adrenal glands) and Libellus De Dentibus (in Venice), a pioneering text on dentition.
- Garcia de Orta publishes Colóquios dos simples e drogas da India in Goa, the first text in a Western language on tropical medicine and drugs, including a classic description of cholera.
- Felix Würtz publishes his critical treatise on surgery, Praktika der Wundartzney, in Basel.[2][3]
Publications
- prob. date – Bernardino Telesio – De Rerum Natura Iuxta Propria Principia.
Births
- October 14 – Jodocus Hondius, Flemish cartographer (died 1612)[4]
- Louise Bourgeois Boursier, French Royal midwife (died 1638)
- Yi Su-gwang, Korean scholar-bureaucrat (died 1628)
- Walter Warner, English scientist (died 1643)
- approx. date
- Oswald Croll, German iatrochemist (died 1609)
- William Lee, English inventor (died 1614)
Deaths
References
- Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 153–156. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- Lorenz, Josef (1940). Der Chirurg Felix Wirtz: sein Leben und sein Werk. Düsseldorf. p. 6.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Steinbrecher in Gerabek, Werner E. et al. (ed) (2005), Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte (Berlin) p. 1503.
- "Jodocus Hondius". brbl-dl.library.yale.edu. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
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