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1563 in science
The year
1563 in
science
and
technology
included a number of events, some of which are listed here.
Medicine and physiology
JuneâÂÂOctober â Outbreak of
bubonic plague
in
London
kills over 20,000.
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
.
Publications
prob. date
âÂÂ
Bernardino Telesio
âÂÂ
De Rerum Natura Iuxta Propria Principia
.
Births
October 14 âÂÂ
Jodocus Hondius
,
Flemish
cartographer
(died
1612
)
Louise Bourgeois Boursier
,
French
Royal
midwife
(died
1638
)
Yi Su-gwang
,
Korea
n
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