1558 in science explained

The year 1558 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.

Economics

• November – Thomas Gresham states Gresham's law.^{[1] [2]}

Exploration

• English explorer Anthony Jenkinson travels from Moscow to Astrakhan and Bokhara.^[1] He is the first Englishman to note that the Amu Darya changed course to start flowing into the Aral Sea.^[3]

Music

• Venetian composer Gioseffo Zarlino accurately describes meantone temperament in Italian: Le istitutioni harmoniche.^[1]

Publications

• Giambattista della Porta publishes the popular science book Magia Naturalis in Naples.
• First publication of Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt's 13th century Epistola de magnete, edited by Achilles Gasser and printed in Augsburg.

Awards

• September 4 – John Feild receives a confirmation of arms in England and the grant of a crest allusive to his attainments in astronomy.

Births

• Robert Alaine, English astronomer (died 1603)
• André du Laurens, French physician and gerontologist (died 1609)
• Olivier van Noort, Dutch circumnavigator (died 1627)

Deaths

• March 6 – Luca Gaurico, Italian astrologer (born 1476)
• March 6 – Fray Marcos de Niza, Savoyard Franciscan explorer (born c. 1495)
• October 21 – Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian-born polymath (born 1484)
• Jean Fernel, French physician (born 1497)
• Robert Recorde, Welsh-born physician and mathematician (born c. 1512)
• approx. date
  • Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Spanish anthropologist (born c. 1488/90)

Notes and References

1. Book: Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd. New York. Simon & Schuster. 1991. 0-671-74919-6. 247. registration.
2. Web site: George Selgin . George . Selgin . Gresham's Law . EH.net Encyclopedia . Economic History Association . 2010-02-01 . 2012-02-06 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130317073119/http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/selgin.gresham.law . 2013-03-17 .
3. Book: Sykes, Percy. A History of Persia. 1921. Macmillan and Company. London. 64.