1530 in science
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The year 1530 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
Botany
- Otto Brunfels begins publication of his illustrated botanical catalogue Herbarium vivae icones, based on his own observations and giving the plants their German vernacular names.
Earth sciences
- Georgius Agricola publishes Bermannus, sive de re metallica dialogus, his first work on scientific metallurgy.
Mathematics
- Approximate date â Jyeá¹£á¹hadeva, a member of the Kerala School of Astronomy and Mathematics in India, writes the YuktibhÄá¹£Ä, the world's first known text on the foundations of calculus.
Medicine
Births
- September 30 â Girolamo Mercuriale, Italian physician (died 1606)
- Mathew Baker, English shipwright (died 1613)
- 1529 or 1530 â Julius Caesar Aranzi, Italian anatomist (died 1589)
- approx. date â Thomas Penny, English botanist and entomologist (died 1589)
Deaths
- Jacopo Berengario da Carpi, Italian anatomist (born 1460)