1560 in science
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The year 1560 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.
Events
- The first scientific society, the Academia Secretorum Naturae, is founded in Naples by Giambattista della Porta.{{cite journal|last=Armytage|first=W.H.G.|title=Giambattista della Porta and the Segreti|url= |journal=British Medical Journal|volume=1|pages=1129–30|year=1960|doi=10.1136/bmj.1.5179.1129|pmc=1966956|issue=5179}}{{cite book|editor=Bergin, Thomas G.|title=Encyclopedia of the Renaissance|location=Oxford; New York|publisher=New Market Books|year=1987}}{{cite book|first=Bernard|last=Grun|title=The Timetables of History|edition=3rd|location=New York|publisher=Simon & Schuster|year=1991|isbn=978-0-671-74919-4|page=[https://archive.org/details/timetablesofhist1991grun/page/247 247]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/timetablesofhist1991grun}}
Astronomy
- August 21 – A total solar eclipse is observable in Europe.
Biology
- The Old Botanical Garden, Zurich, originates as Conrad Gessner's private herbarium.
Births
- January 17 – Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (died 1624)
- June 25 – Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (died 1634)
- undated – Charles Butler, English beekeeper (died 1647)
- approx date
- Thomas Harriot, English ethnographer, astronomer and mathematician (died 1621)
- Hugh Myddelton, Welsh-born goldsmith and hydraulic engineer (died 1631)
Deaths
- William Shakespeare's grandfather; Richard Shakespeare died from natural causes, on 23 April.
- November 15 − Domingo de Soto, Spanish priest and philosopher.