1558 in science

• November – Thomas Gresham states Gresham's law. ==Exploration==

• English explorer Anthony Jenkinson travels from Moscow to Astrakhan and Bokhara. ==Music==

• Venetian composer Gioseffo Zarlino accurately describes meantone temperament in . ==Publications==

• Giambattista della Porta publishes the popular science book Magia Naturalis in Naples. • First publication of Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt's 13th century Epistola de magnete, edited by Achilles Gasser and printed in Augsburg. ==Awards==

• September 4 – John Feild receives a confirmation of arms in England and the grant of a crest allusive to his attainments in astronomy. ==Births==

• Robert Alaine, English astronomer (died 1603) • André du Laurens, French physician and gerontologist (died 1609) • Olivier van Noort, Dutch circumnavigator (died 1627) ==Deaths==

• March 6 – Luca Gaurico, Italian astrologer (born 1476) • March 6 – Fray Marcos de Niza, Savoyard Franciscan explorer (born c. 1495) • October 21 – Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian-born polymath (born 1484) • Jean Fernel, French physician (born 1497) • Robert Recorde, Welsh-born physician and mathematician (born c. 1512) • approx. date • Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Spanish anthropologist (born c. 1488/90) ==References==