1504 in science

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The year 1504 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed below.

Contents

1 Cartography
2 Exploration
3 Births
4 Deaths

Cartography

probable date - Pedro Reinel's Atlantic chart is the earliest known nautical chart with a scale of latitudes, and with a wind rose having a clear fleur-de-lys.

Exploration

February 29 - Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse this night to convince Jamaican tribesmen to provide him with supplies.
November 7 - Columbus returns to Spain from his fourth and last voyage, in which he and his younger son, Ferdinand, explored the coast of Central America from Belize to Panama.

Births

Charles Estienne, French anatomist (d. 1564)

Deaths

June 19 - Bernhard Walther, German astronomer (b. 1430)