1547 in science

Events

• John Dee visits the Low Countries to study navigation with Gemma Frisius.
• The first chair of mathematics at the University of Heidelberg is given to the physician Jacob Curio.
• Charles de Bovelles publishes La Geometrie practique in Paris, with assistance from Oronce Finé.
• Girolamo Gabuccini publishes the first separate treatise on parasitic worms.

Births

• February 18 – Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī, Lebanese-born philosopher and astronomer (died 1621)
• March 1 – Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher and polymath (died 1628)
• November 26 – Nicolaus Taurellus, German philosopher and scientist (died 1606)

Deaths

• January 16 – Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (born 1477)
• December 2 – Hernán Cortés, Spanish explorer (born 1485)

References

References

1. Gabucinus, Hieronymo. (1547). "De lumbricis alvum occupantibus, ac de ratione curande eos, qui ab illis infestantur, commentarius".
2. Egerton, Frank N.. (January 2004). "A History of the Ecological Sciences. Part 12: Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology during the 1500s".