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The year 1546 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.

Botany edit

Hieronymus Bock publishes the second, illustrated, edition of his flora of Germany, the Kreutterbuch.

Antonio Musa Brassavola of Ferrara publishes the first definitely recorded successful tracheostomy.^[1]
Valerius Cordus' pharmacopoeia Dispensatorium published posthumously in Nuremberg.
Girolamo Fracastoro, in his De Contagione et Contagiosis Morbis (published in Venice), discusses the transmission of infectious diseases and gives the first description of typhus.
Giovanni Filippo Ingrassia describes the stapes bone of the middle ear.