The year 1560 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.
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Events
edit- The first scientific society, the Academia Secretorum Naturae, is founded in Naples by Giambattista della Porta.[1][2][3]
Astronomy
edit- August 21 – A total solar eclipse is observable in Europe.
Biology
edit- The Old Botanical Garden, Zurich, originates as Conrad Gessner's private herbarium.
Births
edit- 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
edit- William Shakespeare's grandfather; Richard Shakespeare died from natural causes, on 23 April.
- November 15 − Domingo de Soto, Spanish priest and philosopher.
References
edit- ^ Armytage, W.H.G. (1960). "Giambattista della Porta and the Segreti". British Medical Journal. 1 (5179): 1129–30. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.5179.1129. PMC 1966956.
- ^ Bergin, Thomas G., ed. (1987). Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. Oxford; New York: New Market Books.
- ^ Grun, Bernard (1991). The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 247. ISBN 978-0-671-74919-4.