1555 in science
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The year 1555 CE in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.
Biology
- Pierre Belon publishes L'Histoire de la nature des oyseaux, a pioneering work in the comparative anatomy of birds.{{cite book|first=Bernard|last=Grun|title=The Timetables of History|edition=3rd|location=New York|publisher=Simon & Schuster|year=1991|isbn=0-671-74919-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/timetablesofhist1991grun/page/245 245]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/timetablesofhist1991grun}}
Exploration
- Richard Eden publishes The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India, a translation into English of parts of Pietro Martire d'Anghiera's De orbe novo decades, the Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés work Natural hystoria de las Indias and others.{{cite web|first=Andrew|last=Hadfield|title=Eden, Richard (c.1520–1576)|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8454|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/8454|accessdate=2011-12-12}} {{ODNBsub}}
- Guillaume Le Testu's Cosmographie Universelle selon les navigateurs, tant anciens que modernes contains maps of Terra Australis.
Mathematics
- Petrus Ramus publishes Arithmétique.
- First German translation of Euclid's elements by Johann Scheubel.
Births
- June 13 – Giovanni Antonio Magini, Italian astronomer (died 1617)
- Andreas Libavius, German physician (died 1616)
Deaths
- January 14 – Jacques Dubois, French anatomist (born 1478)
- May 25 – Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (born 1508)
- June 23 – Pedro Mascarenhas, Portuguese explorer (born 1470)
- August 8 – Oronce Finé, French mathematician and cartographer (born 1494)
- October 5 – Edward Wotton, English zoologist (born 1492)
- November 21 – Georgius Agricola, German metallurgist (born 1490)
- Petrus Gyllius, French traveller and ichthyologist (born 1490)