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1524 in science

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The year 1524 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.

Exploration and geography

  • January 17 – Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, on board La Dauphine in the service of Francis I of France, sets out from Madeira for the New World to seek out a westabout sea route to the Pacific Ocean.
  • March 1 (approximate date) – da Verrazzano's expedition makes landfall at Cape Fear.
  • April 17 – da Verrazzano's expedition makes the first European entry into New York Bay.
  • July 8 – da Verrazzano's expedition returns to Dieppe.
  • Petrus Apianus publishes Cosmographicus liber in Landshut, a popular textbook on navigation.

Mathematics

  • Adam Ries publishes his algebraic text Coß.

Births

  • September 7 – Thomas Erastus, Swiss physician and theologian (died 1583)
  • probable date – Thomas Tusser, English chorister and agriculturalist (died 1580)

Deaths

  • August 28 – Fazio Cardano, Italian mathematician (born 1444)
  • December 20 – Thomas Linacre, English physician (born 1460)
  • December 24 – Vasco da Gama, Portuguese navigator (born c. 1469)

References

References

  1. Paine, Lincoln P.. (2000). "Ships of Discovery and Exploration". Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
  2. Grun, Bernard. (1991). "The Timetables of History". Simon & Schuster.
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