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Astronomy

Publication of Erasmus Reinhold's ephemeris, the Tabulae prutenicae , helping to disseminate Copernican methods of astronomical calculation.

Botany

Bolognese naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi begins to collect plants for a herbarium.
William Turner publishes the first part of A New Herball, wherin are conteyned the names of herbes... in London.

Mathematics

Georg Joachim Rheticus publishes Canon of the Science of Triangles.

Medicine

By July – Fifth and last outbreak of sweating sickness in England. Dr. John Caius writes the first full contemporary account of the symptoms of the disease.^[1]
Conrad Gessner is the first to describe adipose tissue.^[2]

Zoology

Pierre Belon publishes Histoire naturelle des estranges poissons.
Conrad Gessner begins publication of his encyclopedic illustrated Historiae animalium in Zurich.

Publications

Martín Cortés de Albacar publishes Breve compendio de la esfera y del arte de navegar in Spain, an influential work in cosmography, proposing spherical charts and mentioning magnetic deviation and the existence of magnetic poles.^[3]

Births

approx. date – Timothy Bright, English physician (died 1615)

Deaths

April 6 – Joachim Vadian, Swiss physician and polymath (born 1484)
May 6 − Johannes Baptista Montanus Italian physician and humanist (born 1498)
August 8 – Fray Tomás de Berlanga, Spanish Bishop of Panama and discoverer of the Galápagos Islands (born 1487)

References

↑ Published in Latin in the Louvain Opera aliquot and in English as A Boke or Counseill Against the Disease Commonly Called the Sweate, or Sweatyng Sicknesse (London, 1552). Nutton, Vivian (2004). "Caius, John (1510–1573)" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4351 . Retrieved 2012-05-30.(subscription or UK public library membership required)
↑ Cannon, Barbara; Nedergaard, Jan (2008-08-21). "Developmental biology: Neither fat nor flesh". Nature . 454 (7207): 947–8. Bibcode:2008Natur.454..947C. doi: 10.1038/454947a . PMID 18719573.
↑ Barrera-Osorio, Antonio (2006). Experiencing nature: the Spanish American empire and the early scientific revolution. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-70981-2.

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[1] Published in Latin in the Louvain Opera aliquot and in English as A Boke or Counseill Against the Disease Commonly Called the Sweate, or Sweatyng Sicknesse (London, 1552). Nutton, Vivian (2004). "Caius, John (1510–1573)" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4351 . Retrieved 2012-05-30.(subscription or UK public library membership required)

[2] Cannon, Barbara; Nedergaard, Jan (2008-08-21). "Developmental biology: Neither fat nor flesh". Nature . 454 (7207): 947–8. Bibcode:2008Natur.454..947C. doi: 10.1038/454947a . PMID 18719573.

[3] Barrera-Osorio, Antonio (2006). Experiencing nature: the Spanish American empire and the early scientific revolution. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-70981-2.

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