1558 in science
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The year 1558 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.
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 harmoniche.[1]
Publications
- Giambattista della Porta publishes the popular science book Magia Naturalis in Naples.
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)
- Pierre Desceliers, French cartographer and hydrographer (born c. 1500)
