1555 in science explained

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 – Giovanni Antonio Magini, Italian astronomer (died 1617)
• Andreas Libavius, German physician (died 1616)

Deaths

• January 14 – Jacques Dubois, French anatomist (born 1478)
• May 25 – Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (born 1508)
• June 23 – Pedro Mascarenhas, Portuguese explorer (born 1470)
• August 8 – Oronce Finé, French mathematician and cartographer (born 1494)
• October 5 – Edward Wotton, English zoologist (born 1492)
• November 21 – Georgius Agricola, German metallurgist (born 1490)
• Petrus Gyllius, French traveller and ichthyologist (born 1490)

Notes and References

1. Book: Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd. New York. Simon & Schuster. 1991. 0-671-74919-6. 245. registration.
2. Web site: Andrew. Hadfield. Eden, Richard (c.1520–1576). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. 2004. 10.1093/ref:odnb/8454. 2011-12-12.