Overview of the events of 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
- Débats et controverses. Editions Parenthèses. 1997. ISBN 978-2-86364-905-3. Retrieved 2011-08-05.