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1545 in science

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The year 1545 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Botany

  • Orto botanico di Padova and di Firenze botanical gardens established.

Mathematics

  • Gerolamo Cardano publishes his algebra text Ars Magna, including the first published solutions to cubic and quartic equations.

Physiology and medicine

  • Charles Estienne publishes De dissectione partium corporis humani, libri tres, including a description of the venous valves of the liver.
  • Ambroise Paré publishes his first book, a treatise on battlefield medicine, La méthode de traicter les playes faictes par hacquebutes et aultres bastons à feu et de celles qui sont faictes par flèches, dardz et semblables, in Paris.
  • Thomas Phaer publishes The Boke of Chyldren, the first book on paediatrics written in English.

Zoology

  • The giant squid (Architeuthis) is first seen.

Births

  • January 11 – Guidobaldo del Monte, Italian mathematician (died 1607)
  • March – Gaspare Tagliacozzi, Italian anatomist (died 1599)
  • John Gerard, English botanist (died 1612)

Deaths

  • Christoph Rudolff, Silesian mathematician (born 1499)

References

References

  1. "The Galileo Project".
  2. "John Gerard - English herbalist and author".
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