Charles Estienne publishes Seminarium, et Plantarium fructiferarum praesertim arborum quae post hortos conseri solent, Denuo auctum & locupletatum. Huic accessit alter libellus de conserendis arboribus in seminario: deque iis in plantarium transserendis atque inserendis in Paris.
Jean Ruelle publishes De Natura stirpium libri tres in Paris, the first general descriptive botany to be printed.
Charles Estienne publishes De vasculis libellus, adulescentulorum causa ex Baysio decerptus. Addita vulgari Latinarum vocum interpretatione in Paris and De re vestiaria libellus, ex Bayfio excerptus: addita vulgaris linguae interpretatione, in adulescentulorum gratiam atque utilitatem in Lyon.
Paracelsus publishes his work on surgery, Die grosse Wundartzney, in Ulm.
Sir Thomas Elyot publishes his popular medical text, The Castel of Helth, in London.
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