1560 in science

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The year 1560 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.

Events

• The first scientific society, the Academia Secretorum Naturae, is founded in Naples by Giambattista della Porta.^[1][2][3]

Astronomy

• August 21 – A total solar eclipse is observable in Europe.

Biology

• The Old Botanical Garden, Zurich, originates as Conrad Gessner's private herbarium.

Births

• January 17 – Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (died 1624)
• June 25 – Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (died 1634)
• undated – Charles Butler, English beekeeper (died 1647)
• approx date
  • Thomas Harriot, English ethnographer, astronomer and mathematician (died 1621)
  • Hugh Myddelton, Welsh-born goldsmith and hydraulic engineer (died 1631)

Deaths

References

1. Armytage, W.H.G. (1960). "Giambattista della Porta and the Segreti" (PDF). British Medical Journal 1 (5179): 1129–30. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.5179.1129. PMC 1966956. Retrieved 2011-10-17.
2. Bergin, Thomas G., ed. (1987). Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. Oxford; New York: New Market Books.
3. Grun, Bernard (1991). The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 247. ISBN 0-671-74919-6.