The year 1566 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
Biology Rembert Dodoens publishes at Antwerp.
Civil engineering 1566–67 – Completion of "Stari Most" bridge crossing the Neretva at Mostar by the Ottoman Empire (builder: Mimar Hayruddin). Autumn – Probable completion of the Exeter Canal, the first in England, and with the first use of a pound lock in England (engineer: John Trew of Glamorgan).
Navigation Pedro Nunes' work on navigation, Petri Nonii Salaciensis Opera, is published.
Events December 29 – Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, while studying at the University of Rostock in Mecklenburg, loses part of his nose in a duel with fellow nobleman and relation Manderup Parsberg over a mathematical formula.
Births Giuseppe Biancani, Italian astronomer (died 1624) Jan Jesenius, Slovak physician (died 1621) Michal Sedziwój, Polish alchemist (died 1636) Caterina Vitale, Maltese pharmacist (died 1619)
Deaths May 4 – Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (born 1490) May 10 – Leonhart Fuchs, German botanist (born 1501) July 2 – Nostradamus, French physician and astrologer (born 1503) July 30 – Guillaume Rondelet, French physician (born 1507)
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