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1519 in science

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The year 1519 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

Exploration

  • September 20 – Ferdinand Magellan's fleet sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda to find a westabout route to Asia.
  • "Miller Atlas" produced in Portugal.

Medicine

  • A pandemic spreads from the Greater Antilles into Central America, and perhaps as far as Peru, killing much of the indigenous populations in these areas.
  • Publication in Paris of Thomas Linacre's translation into Latin of Galen's Methodus medendi.

Births

  • June 6 – Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (died 1603)

Deaths

  • May 2 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian polymath (born 1452)

References

References

  1. Crosby, Alfred W. Jr.. (1972). "The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492". Greenwood Press.
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