1566 in science

• 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) ==References==