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词条 1551 in science
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  1. Astronomy

  2. Botany

  3. Mathematics

  4. Medicine

  5. Zoology

  6. Publications

  7. Births

  8. Deaths

  9. References

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Astronomy

  • Publication of Erasmus Reinhold's ephemeris, the Tabulae prutenicae, helping to disseminate Copernican methods of astronomical calculation.

Botany

  • Bolognese naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi begins to collect plants for a herbarium.
  • William Turner publishes the first part of A New Herball, wherin are conteyned the names of herbes… in London.

Mathematics

  • Georg Joachim Rheticus publishes Canon of the Science of Triangles.

Medicine

  • The fifth outbreak of sweating sickness occurs in England. Dr. John Caius writes the first full contemporary account of the symptoms of the disease.[1]
  • Conrad Gessner is the first to describe adipose tissue.[2]

Zoology

  • Pierre Belon publishes Histoire naturelle des estranges poissons.
  • Conrad Gessner begins publication of his encyclopedic illustrated Historiae animalium in Zurich.

Publications

  • Martín Cortés de Albacar publishes Breve compendio de la esfera y del arte de navegar in Spain, an influential work in cosmography, proposing spherical charts and mentioning magnetic deviation and the existence of magnetic poles.[3]

Births

  • approx. date – Timothy Bright, English physician (died 1615)

Deaths

  • April 6 – Joachim Vadian, Swiss physician and polymath (born 1484)
  • August 8 – Fray Tomás de Berlanga, Spanish Bishop of Panama and discoverer of the Galápagos Islands (born 1487)

References

1. ^Published in Latin in the Louvain Opera aliquot and in English as A Boke or Counseill Against the Disease Commonly Called the Sweate, or Sweatyng Sicknesse (London, 1552). {{cite journal|first=Vivian|last=Nutton|title=Caius, John (1510–1573)|journal=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4351|accessdate=2012-05-30|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/4351}} {{ODNBsub}}
2. ^{{cite journal|last1=Cannon|first1=Barbara|last2=Nedergaard|first2=Jan|date=2008-08-21|title=Developmental biology: Neither fat nor flesh|url=http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v454/n7207/full/454947a.html|journal=Nature|volume=454|issue=7207|pages=947–8|accessdate=2011-05-24|doi=10.1038/454947a|pmid=18719573|bibcode=2008Natur.454..947C}}
3. ^{{cite book|first=Antonio|last=Barrera-Osorio|title=Experiencing nature: the Spanish American empire and the early scientific revolution|publisher=University of Texas Press|location=Austin|year=2006|isbn=978-0-292-70981-2}}
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