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<h2 id="biology">Biology</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Pierre_Belon/fkbAz31p">Pierre Belon</a> publishes <i>L'Histoire de la nature des oyseaux</i>, a pioneering work in the <a href="/facts/Comparative_anatomy/UycBTvDH">comparative anatomy</a> of birds.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="exploration">Exploration</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Richard_Eden_(translator)/PR9bu8UM">Richard Eden</a> publishes <i>The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India</i>, a translation into <a href="/facts/English_language/tpkxGt7b">English</a> of parts of <a href="/facts/Pietro_Martire_d%2527Anghiera/4lIRYu4t">Pietro Martire d'Anghiera</a>'s <i><a href="/facts/Decades_of_the_New_World/lAteqzYQ">De orbe novo decades</a></i>, the <a href="/facts/Gonzalo_Fern%25C3%25A1ndez_de_Oviedo_y_Vald%25C3%25A9s/e1GhTLFQ">Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés</a> work <i>Natural hystoria de las Indias</i> and others.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Guillaume_Le_Testu/ScYJD5n2">Guillaume Le Testu</a>'s <i>Cosmographie Universelle selon les navigateurs, tant anciens que modernes</i> contains maps of <a href="/facts/Terra_Australis/Y2vacCD1">Terra Australis</a>.</li></ul> <h2 id="mathematics">Mathematics</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Petrus_Ramus/GstkgclQ">Petrus Ramus</a> publishes <i>Arithmétique</i>.</li> <li>First German translation of <a href="/facts/Euclid%2527s_elements/nPKvCIxs">Euclid's elements</a> by <a href="/facts/Johann_Scheubel/qu1UQ1f4">Johann Scheubel</a>.</li></ul> <h2 id="births">Births</h2> <ul><li>June 13 – <a href="/facts/Giovanni_Antonio_Magini/Ak2upWcg">Giovanni Antonio Magini</a>, <a href="/facts/Italian_people/dsdUeJ1n">Italian</a> <a href="/facts/Astronomer/ronF8j4a">astronomer</a> (died <a href="/facts/1617_in_science/oAvr5E64">1617</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Andreas_Libavius/magLJYAm">Andreas Libavius</a>, <a href="/facts/German_people/F7mBCrJ4">German</a> <a href="/facts/Physician/qJ3woFvG">physician</a> (died <a href="/facts/1616_in_science/29u9ADod">1616</a>)</li></ul> <h2 id="deaths">Deaths</h2> <ul><li>January 14 – <a href="/facts/Jacques_Dubois/SscGQcKA">Jacques Dubois</a>, <a href="/facts/French_people/984axQ8y">French</a> <a href="/facts/Anatomist/p8TCWJuV">anatomist</a> (born 1478)</li> <li>May 25 – <a href="/facts/Gemma_Frisius/23tBkQj1">Gemma Frisius</a>, <a href="/facts/Dutch_people/QhHtJ2WK">Dutch</a> <a href="/facts/Mathematician/eaFSR8Fx">mathematician</a> and <a href="/facts/Cartographer/8YdDAAeX">cartographer</a> (born <a href="/facts/1508_in_science/WJQb11ut">1508</a>)</li> <li>June 23 – <a href="/facts/Pedro_Mascarenhas/dk8pThS4">Pedro Mascarenhas</a>, <a href="/facts/Portuguese_people/1nLGh91a">Portuguese</a> explorer (born 1470)</li> <li>August 8 – <a href="/facts/Oronce_Fin%25C3%25A9/rKCDLHnV">Oronce Finé</a>, French mathematician and cartographer (born 1494)</li> <li>October 5 – <a href="/facts/Edward_Wotton_(zoologist)/jo9S5L8a">Edward Wotton</a>, <a href="/facts/English_people/IeI9c7BK">English</a> <a href="/facts/Zoologist/6Kj13mBt">zoologist</a> (born 1492)</li> <li>November 21 – <a href="/facts/Georgius_Agricola/FXprFXAK">Georgius Agricola</a>, German <a href="/facts/Metallurgist/1SANyxX4">metallurgist</a> (born 1490)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Petrus_Gyllius/BTQKRI71">Petrus Gyllius</a>, French traveller and <a href="/facts/Ichthyologist/S2MCul1h">ichthyologist</a> (born 1490)</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Grun, Bernard (1991). The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 245. ISBN 0-671-74919-6. <a href="0-671-74919-6" target="_blank">0-671-74919-6</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>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) <a href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8454" target="_blank">http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8454</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>