1561 in science
The year 1561 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.
Cartography and navigation
- Bartolomeu Velho produces a Carta General do Orbe for Sebastian of Portugal.
- Richard Eden translates Martín Cortés de Albacar's Arte de navigar as The Arte of Navigation which becomes the first manual of navigation in English.
Medicine and physiology
- Gabriele Falloppio publishes Observationes anatomicae in Venice, the only work of his printed during his lifetime.
- Ambroise Paré publishes Anatomie universelle du corps humain and La méthode curative des playes et fractures de la test humaine in Paris.
- Smallpox epidemic in Chile.
Births
- January 6 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician
- January 22 – Francis Bacon, English philosopher of science
- March 29 – Sanctorius, Istrian physiologist
- August 4 – John Harington, English inventor
- August 24 – Bartholomaeus Pitiscus, German trigonometrist
- August 25 – Philippe van Lansberge, Flemish astronomer
- September 29 – Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician
- October 8 – Edward Wright, English mathematician