1564 in science
The year 1564 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
Medicine
- Ambroise Paré publishes his treatise on surgery, Dix livres de la chirurgie: avec le magasin des instrumens necessaires à icelle, in French.
Births
- February 15 – Galileo Galilei, Pisan astronomer.
- March 9 – David Fabricius, Frisian astronomer.approx. date – Pierre Richer de Belleval, French botanist.
Deaths
- April – Pierre Belon, French naturalist
- October 15 – Vesalius, Flemish anatomist
- October 18 – Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician
- Charles Estienne, French anatomist