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1548 in science

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The year 1548 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.

Events

  • February 14 – Battle of Uedahara: Firearms are used for the first time on the battlefield in Japan.
  • August 10 – Debate in Milan between mathematicians Lodovico Ferrari and Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia concerning the algebraic method for resolving third-degree equations.
  • John Dee starts to study at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Publications

  • Georgius Agricola – De animantibus subterraneis
  • Valerius Cordus – Pharmacorum conficiendorum ratio (posthumous)
  • Rembert Dodoens – Cosmographica in astronomiam et geographiam isagoge
  • Gemma Frisius – De Orbis divisione et insulis rebusque nuper inventis
  • William Turner – The names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Englishe Duche and Frenche wyth the commune names that Herbaries and Apotecaries use

Births

  • April 15 – Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (died 1626)
  • Giordano Bruno, Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, astrologer and astronomer (k. 1600)
  • Abul Qasim ibn Mohammed al-Ghassani, Moroccan physician (died 1610)
  • approx. date – Simon Stevin, Flemish scientist (died 1620)

Deaths

References

References

  1. (1997). "Débats et controverses". Editions Parenthèses.
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