1558 in science

Overview of the events of 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

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* November – Thomas Gresham states Gresham's law.[1][2]

## Exploration

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* 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

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* Venetian composer Gioseffo Zarlino accurately describes meantone temperament in Le istitutioni harmoniche.[1]

## Publications

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* Giambattista della Porta publishes the popular science book Magia Naturalis in Naples.
* First publication of Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt's 13th century Epistola de magnete, edited by Achilles Gasser and printed in Augsburg.

## Awards

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* September 4 – John Feild receives a confirmation of arms in England and the grant of a crest allusive to his attainments in astronomy.

## Births

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* Robert Alaine, English astronomer (died 1603)
* André du Laurens, French physician and gerontologist (died 1609)
* Olivier van Noort, Dutch circumnavigator (died 1627)

## Deaths

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* 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)
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* Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Spanish anthropologist (born c. 1488/90)

## References

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1. ^ a b c Grun, Bernard (1991). The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 247. ISBN 0-671-74919-6.
2. ^ Selgin, George (2010-02-01). "Gresham's Law". EH.net Encyclopedia. Economic History Association. Archived from the original on 2013-03-17. Retrieved 2012-02-06.
3. ^ Sykes, Percy (1921). A History of Persia. London: Macmillan and Company. p. 64.

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