1552 in science
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Life sciences
- In Italy, Bartolomeo Eustachi completes his Tabulae anatomicae, presenting his discoveries on the structure of the inner ear (including the Eustachian tube)[1] and heart, although it will not be published until 1714.
- Cornelius Gemma publishes the first illustration of a human tapeworm.[2]
- Thierry de Héry publishes La Méthode Curatoire de la maladie vénérienne vulgairement appelée grosse Vérole et de la diversité de ses symptômes, the first work in French on syphilis.
- Ambroise Paré appointed royal surgeon to the House of Valois in France; and begins publication of a treatise on battlefield medicine, La Manière de traicter les playes faictes tant par hacquebutes que par flèches et les accidentz d'icelles.
- Edward Wotton's systematic researches in zoology are collected in De differentiis animalium libri decem, published in Paris.[3]
Births
- February 28 - Jost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (d. 1632)
- Petrus Plancius, Flemish cartographer and cosmographer (d. 1622)
Deaths
- April 21 - Petrus Apianus, German cartographer and cosmographer (b. 1495)
- May 18 - Theodor Dorsten, German botanist and physician (b. 1492)
- May 26 - Sebastian Münster, German cartographer and cosmographer (b. 1488)
- Bartolomeo Maggi, Bolognese surgeon, (b. 1477)
References
- ^ Grun, Bernard (1991). The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 245. ISBN 0-671-74919-6.
- ^ "Parasitology Research & Encyclopedic Reference of Parasitology" (PDF). University of Würzburg.[dead link]
- ^ Pollard, A. F.; Wallis, Patrick (2004). "Wotton, Edward (1492–1555)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29999. Retrieved 2011-10-24. (subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required)