1563 in science explained

The year 1563 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.

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)

Notes and References

1. Book: Palmer. Alan. Palmer. Veronica. 1992. The Chronology of British History. Century Ltd. London. 153–156. 0-7126-5616-2.
2. Book: Lorenz, Josef. Der Chirurg Felix Wirtz: sein Leben und sein Werk. Düsseldorf. 1940. 6.
3. Steinbrecher in Gerabek, Werner E. et al. (ed) (2005), Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte (Berlin) p. 1503.
4. Web site: Jodocus Hondius. brbl-dl.library.yale.edu. 3 April 2018. en.