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 (died 1642).
 * March 9 – David Fabricius, Frisian astronomer (died 1617).
 * approx. date – Pierre Richer de Belleval, French botanist (died 1632).

Deaths

 * April – Pierre Belon, French naturalist (born 1517) (murdered)
 * October 15 – Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (born 1514)
 * October 18 – Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician (born 1520)
 * Charles Estienne, French anatomist (born 1504)