1528 in science

Events

• Paracelsus leaves Basel.

Exploration

• February – Diego García de Moguer explores the Sierra de la Plata along the Río de la Plata and begins to travel up the Paraná River.
• November 6 – Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and his companions become the first Europeans known to set foot on the territory of Texas.
• Jean Fernel publishes Cosmotheoria, including a means of determining a degree of arc of the meridian.

Medicine

• May – The fourth major outbreak of the sweating sickness occurs in England, also spreading to northern Europe.

Births

• October 10 – Adam Lonicer, German botanist, naturalist and physician (died 1586)
• Adam von Bodenstein, Swiss alchemist and physician (died 1577)

Deaths

• April 6 – Albrecht Dürer, German artist and polymath (born 1471)
• Martín Fernández de Enciso, Spanish explorer (born c. 1470)
• Al-Birjandi, Persian astronomer and mathematician
• Giovanni da Verrazzano, Italian-born explorer (born 1485) (killed and eaten by Carib people)

References

References

1. ''Los viajes de Diego García de Moguer''.
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3. Müller, Peter O.. (1993). "Substantiv-Derivation in den Schriften Albrecht Dürers". Walter de Gruyter.
4. Wroth, Lawrence C.. (1970). "The Voyages of Giovanni da Verrazzano, 1524-1528". Yale University Press.