1564 in science

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.
• March 9 – David Fabricius, Frisian astronomer.
• approx. date – Pierre Richer de Belleval, French botanist.

  Deaths

• April – Pierre Belon, French naturalist
• October 15 – Vesalius, Flemish anatomist
• October 18 – Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician
• Charles Estienne, French anatomist