1546 in science
The year 1546 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.Botany
- Hieronymus Bock publishes the second, illustrated, edition of his flora of Germany, the Kreutterbuch.
Medicine
- Antonio Musa Brassavola of Ferrara publishes the first definitely recorded successful tracheostomy.
- Valerius Cordus' pharmacopoeia Dispensatorium published posthumously in Nuremberg.
- Girolamo Fracastoro, in his De Contagione et Contagiosis Morbis, discusses the transmission of infectious diseases and gives the first description of typhus.
- Giovanni Filippo Ingrassia describes the stapes bone of the middle ear.
Births
- December 14 – Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer.
- date unknown
- * Thomas Digges, English astronomer
- * Heo Jun, Korean physician
- * Katharina Kepler, née Guldenmann, German healer and mother of Johannes Kepler
- approx. date – Paul Wittich, German astronomer and mathematician
Deaths
- Ruy López de Villalobos, Spanish explorer
