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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
[edit]- 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.[1][2]
- July 8 – da Verrazzano's expedition returns to Dieppe.
- Petrus Apianus publishes Cosmographicus liber in Landshut, a popular textbook on navigation.[2]
Mathematics
[edit]- Adam Ries publishes his algebraic text Coß.
Births
[edit]- September 7 – Thomas Erastus, Swiss physician and theologian (died 1583)
- probable date – Thomas Tusser, English chorister and agriculturalist (died 1580)
Deaths
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ Paine, Lincoln P. (2000). Ships of Discovery and Exploration. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 37. ISBN 0-395-98415-7.
- ^ a b Grun, Bernard (1991). The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 235. ISBN 0-671-74919-6.