1563 in science

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]
• adrenal glands) and Libellus De Dentibus (in Venice), a pioneering text on dentition
  .
• 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 –
  cartographer (died 1612)^[4]
• Louise Bourgeois Boursier, French Royal midwife (died 1638
  )
• scholar-bureaucrat (died 1628
  )
• Walter Warner, English scientist (died 1643)
• approx. date
  • German iatrochemist (died 1609
    )
  • William Lee, English inventor (died 1614)

Deaths

References