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 â Battle of Uedahara: Firearms are used for the first time on the battlefield in Japan.
- August 10 â Debate in Milan between mathematicians Lodovico Ferrari and Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia concerning the algebraic method for resolving third-degree equations.[1]
- John Dee starts to study at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Publications
- Georgius Agricola â De animantibus subterraneis
- Valerius Cordus â Pharmacorum conficiendorum ratio (posthumous)
- Rembert Dodoens â Cosmographica in astronomiam et geographiam isagoge
- Gemma Frisius â De Orbis divisione et insulis rebusque nuper inventis
- William Turner â The names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Englishe Duche and Frenche wyth the commune names that Herbaries and Apotecaries use
Births
- April 15 â 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 â Simon Stevin, Flemish scientist (died 1620)