1563 in science
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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)
- 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)
