1558 in science

The year 1558 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.

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Economics

• November – Thomas Gresham states Gresham's law.[1][2]

Exploration

• English explorer Anthony Jenkinson travels from Moscow to Astrakhan and Bokhara.[1] He is the first Englishman to note that the Amu Darya changed course to start flowing into the Aral Sea.[3]

Music

• Venetian composer Gioseffo Zarlino accurately describes meantone temperament in Le istitutioni harmonichecode: ita promoted to code: it .[1]

Publications

• Giambattista della Porta publishes the popular science book Magia Naturalis in Naples.
• First publication of Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt's 13th century Epistola de magnete, edited by Achilles Gasser and printed in Augsburg.

Awards

• September 4 – John Feild receives a confirmation of arms in England and the grant of a crest allusive to his attainments in astronomy.

Births

• Robert Alaine, English astronomer (died 1603)
• André du Laurens, French physician and gerontologist (died 1609)
• Olivier van Noort, Dutch circumnavigator (died 1627)

Deaths

• March 6 – Luca Gaurico, Italian astrologer (born 1476)
• March 6 – Fray Marcos de Niza, Savoyard Franciscan explorer (born c. 1495)
• October 21 – Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian-born polymath (born 1484)
• Jean Fernel, French physician (born 1497)
• Robert Recorde, Welsh-born physician and mathematician (born c. 1512)
• approx. date
  • Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Spanish anthropologist (born c. 1488/90)

References

1. Grun, Bernard (1991). The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 247. ISBN 0-671-74919-6.
2. Selgin, George (2010-02-01). "Gresham's Law". EH.net Encyclopedia. Economic History Association. Archived from the original on 2013-03-17. Retrieved 2012-02-06.
3. Sykes, Percy (1921). A History of Persia. London: Macmillan and Company. p. 64.