1567 in science
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The year 1567 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.
Astronomy
- Jean-Antoine de Baïf publishes Le Premier des Météores, a didactic poem on astronomy, in France.[1]
Mathematics
- Fabrizio Mordente (1532 – ca 1608) publishes a single sheet treatise in Venice showing illustrations of his "proportional eight-pointed compass" which has two arms with cursors that allow the solution of problems in measuring the circumference, area and angles of a circle.[2]
Medicine
- Paracelsus publishes On the Miners' Sickness and Other Diseases of Miners, a pioneering example of occupational medicine.
Births
- John Parkinson, English herbalist and botanist (died 1650)
Deaths
- April 19 - Michael Stifel, German mathematician (born c. 1487)
References
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