1561 in science
The year 1561 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.
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Cartography and navigation
- Bartolomeu Velho produces a Carta General do Orbe for Sebastian of Portugal.
- Richard Eden translates Martín Cortés de Albacar's Arte de navigar as The Arte of Navigation which becomes the first manual of navigation in English.[1]
Medicine and physiology
- Gabriele Falloppio publishes Observationes anatomicae in Venice, the only work of his printed during his lifetime.[2]
- Ambroise Paré publishes Anatomie universelle du corps humain and La méthode curative des playes et fractures de la test humaine in Paris.
- Smallpox epidemic in Chile.
Births
- January 6 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician (died 1656)
- January 22 – Francis Bacon, English philosopher of science (died 1626)
- March 29 – Sanctorius, Istrian physiologist (died 1636)
- August 4 – John Harington, English inventor (died 1612)
- August 24 – Bartholomaeus Pitiscus, German trigonometrist (died 1613)
- August 25 – Philippe van Lansberge, Flemish astronomer (died 1632)
- September 29 – Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (died 1615)
- October 8 (bapt.) – Edward Wright, English mathematician (died 1615)
Deaths
gollark: Just because you can describe a task in a sentence or so doesn't mean you can give a description clear and detailed enough to think about programming it.
gollark: Early attempts at AI back in the last millennium tried to create AIs by giving them logical reasoning abilities and a large set of facts. This didn't really work; they did some things, hit the limits of the facts they had, and didn't do anything very interesting.
gollark: They don't even have *memory* - you just train the model a bunch, keep that around, feed it data, and then get the results; next time you want data out, you use the original model from the training phase.
gollark: They don't really have goals, only the training code does, and that goal is something like "maximize prediction accuracy with respect to the data".
gollark: They're big networks which are trained to detect patterns, sometimes very deep ones, in large amounts of data.
References
- Hadfield, Andrew (2004). "Eden, Richard (c.1520–1576)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/8454. Retrieved 2011-12-12. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- Grun, Bernard (1991). The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 247. ISBN 0-671-74919-6.
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