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 (died 1656)
 * January 22 – Francis Bacon, English philosopher of science (died 1626)
 * March 29 – Sanctorius, Istrian physiologist (died 1636)
 * August 4 – John Harington, English inventor (died 1612)
 * August 24 – Bartholomaeus Pitiscus, German trigonometrist (died 1613)
 * August 25 – Philippe van Lansberge, Flemish astronomer (died 1632)
 * September 29 – Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (died 1615)
 * October 8 (bapt.) – Edward Wright, English mathematician (died 1615)