1555 in science
The year 1555 CE in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.Biology
- Pierre Belon publishes , a pioneering work in the comparative anatomy of birds.
Exploration
- Richard Eden publishes The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India, a translation into English of parts of Pietro Martire d'Anghiera's De orbe novo decades, the Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés work Natural hystoria de las Indias and others.
- Guillaume Le Testu's Cosmographie Universelle selon les navigateurs, tant anciens que modernes contains maps of Terra Australis.
Mathematics
- Petrus Ramus publishes Arithmétique.
- First german translation of Euclid's elements by Johann Scheubel.
Births
- June 13 – Giovanni Antonio Magini, Italian astronomer
- Andreas Libavius, German physician
Deaths
- January 14 – Jacques Dubois, French anatomist
- May 25 – Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer
- June 23 – Pedro Mascarenhas, Portuguese explorer
- August 8 – Oronce Finé, French mathematician and cartographer
- October 5 – Edward Wotton, English zoologist
- November 21 – Georgius Agricola, German metallurgist
- Petrus Gyllius, French traveller and ichthyologist
