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The year 1567 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.

Astronomy

Jean-Antoine de Baïf publishes Le Premier des Météores, a didactic poem on astronomy, in France.

Mathematics

Fabrizio Mordente (1532 – ca 1608) publishes a single sheet treatise in Venice showing illustrations of his "proportional eight-pointed compass" which has two arms with cursors that allow the solution of problems in measuring the circumference, area and angles of a circle.

Medicine

Paracelsus publishes On the Miners' Sickness and Other Diseases of Miners, a pioneering example of occupational medicine.

Births

John Parkinson, English herbalist and botanist (died 1650)

Deaths

April 19 - Michael Stifel, German mathematician (born c. 1487)

References

"Jean-Antoine de Baif" in Weinberg, Bernard, ed., French Poetry of the Renaissance, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, Arcturus Books edition, 1964, fifth printing, 1974 (first published in France, 1954), ISBN 0-8093-0135-0, p. 132.
Camerota, Filippo (2012). "Mordente, Fabrizio". Biographical Dictionary of Italian. Vol. 76.