The year 1524 in
science and
technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.
Exploration and geography
* January 17 –
Florentine explorer
Giovanni da Verrazzano, on board ''
La Dauphine
''La Dauphine'' (Fr. "The eminineDolphin", term used for the wife of the crown prince) was a three-masted sailing vessel that served as the flagship of the explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano on his first voyage to the New World while seeking a shi ...
'' in the service of
Francis I of France, sets out from
Madeira
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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
New York Bay is the large tidal body of water in the New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary where the Hudson River, Raritan River, and Arthur Kill empty into the Atlantic Ocean between Sandy Hook and Rockaway Point.
Geography
New York Bay is usu ...
.
* July 8 – da Verrazzano's expedition returns to
Dieppe.
*
Petrus Apianus publishes ''Cosmographicus liber'' in
Landshut
Landshut (; bar, Landshuad) is a town in Bavaria in the south-east of Germany. Situated on the banks of the River Isar, Landshut is the capital of Lower Bavaria, one of the seven administrative regions of the Free State of Bavaria. It is also t ...
, a popular textbook on
navigation.
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Mathematics
* Adam Ries publishes his algebraic text ''Coß''.
Births
* September 7 – Thomas Erastus
Thomas Erastus (original surname Lüber, Lieber, or Liebler; 7 September 152431 December 1583) was a Swiss physician and Calvinist theologian. He wrote 100 theses (later reduced to 75) in which he argued that the sins committed by Christians shou ...
, Swiss
Swiss may refer to:
* the adjectival form of Switzerland
* Swiss people
Places
* Swiss, Missouri
* Swiss, North Carolina
*Swiss, West Virginia
* Swiss, Wisconsin
Other uses
*Swiss-system tournament, in various games and sports
*Swiss Internation ...
physician and theologian (died 1583
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Events
January–June
* January 18 – François, Duke of Anjou, attacks Antwerp.
* February 4 – Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg, newly converted to Calvinism, formally marries Agnes von Mansfeld-Eisleben, a form ...
)
* ''probable date'' – Thomas Tusser
Thomas Tusser (c. 15243 May 1580) was an English poet and farmer, best known for his instructional poem ''Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry'', an expanded version of his original title, ''A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie'', first publishe ...
, English chorister and agriculturalist (died 1580
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Events
January–June
* January 31 – Portuguese succession crisis of 1580: The death of Henry, King of Portugal, with no direct heirs, leads to conflict between his potential successors, including King Philip II of ...
)
Deaths
* August 28 – Fazio Cardano
Fazio Cardano (1444 – 28 August 1524) was an Italian jurist and mathematician. He was a student of perspective. Cardano was also a professor at the University of Pavia, and was devoted to hermetical science and the world of the occult. He wa ...
, Italian mathematician (born 1444)
* December 20 – Thomas Linacre
Thomas Linacre or Lynaker ( ; 20 October 1524) was an English humanist scholar and physician, after whom Linacre College, Oxford, and Linacre House, a boys' boarding house at The King's School, Canterbury, are named.
Linacre was more of a schola ...
, English physician (born 1460)
* December 24 – Vasco da Gama
Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira (; ; c. 1460s – 24 December 1524), was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea.
His initial voyage to India by way of Cape of Good Hope (1497–1499) was the first to link E ...
, Portuguese navigator (born c. 1469)
References
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16th century in science
1520s in science