Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/January 17

January 17:

• 1501 - Birth of Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (d. 1566)

• 1524 - Beginning of Giovanni da Verrazzano's voyage to find a passage to China

• 1560 - Birth of Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (d. 1624)

• 1666 - Birth of Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist (d. 1723)

• 1705 - Death of John Ray, English naturalist (b. 1627)

• 1834 - Birth of August Weismann, German biologist (d. 1914)

• 1834 - Death of Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (b. 1762)

• 1881 - Birth of Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (d. 1941)

• 1911 - Sir Francis Galton, English polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist (b. 1822)

• 1997 - Death of Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (b. 1906)

• 2005 - Death of Albert Schatz, American microbiologist (b. 1920)