1563 in science
The year 1563 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.Medicine and physiology
- June–October – Outbreak of bubonic plague in London kills over 20,000.
- Bartolomeo Eustachi publishes De Renibus and Libellus De Dentibus, a pioneering text on dentition.
- Garcia de Orta publishes Colóquios dos simples e drogas da India in Goa, the first text in a Western language on tropical medicine and drugs, including a classic description of cholera.
- Felix Würtz publishes his critical treatise on surgery, Praktika der Wundartzney, in Basel.
Publications
- prob. date – Bernardino Telesio – De Rerum Natura Iuxta Propria Principia.
Births
- October 14 – Jodocus Hondius, Flemish cartographer
- Louise Bourgeois Boursier, French Royal midwife
- Yi Su-gwang, Korean scholar-bureaucrat
- Walter Warner, English scientist
- approx. date
- * Oswald Croll, German iatrochemist
- * William Lee, English inventor
Deaths
