1563 in science

The year 1563 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.

Medicine and physiology

 * June–October – Outbreak of bubonic plague in London kills over 20,000.
 * Bartolomeo Eustachi publishes De Renibus (including his discovery of the adrenal glands) and Libellus De Dentibus (in Venice), a pioneering text on dentition.
 * Garcia de Orta publishes Colóquios dos simples e drogas da India in Goa, the first text in a Western language on tropical medicine and drugs, including a classic description of cholera.
 * Felix Würtz publishes his critical treatise on surgery, Praktika der Wundartzney, in Basel.

Publications

 * prob. date – Bernardino Telesio – De Rerum Natura Iuxta Propria Principia.

Births

 * October 14 – Jodocus Hondius, Flemish cartographer (died 1612)
 * Louise Bourgeois Boursier, French Royal midwife (died 1638)
 * Yi Su-gwang, Korean scholar-bureaucrat (died 1628)
 * Walter Warner, English scientist (died 1643)
 * approx. date
 * Oswald Croll, German iatrochemist (died 1609)
 * William Lee, English inventor (died 1614)