1512 in science

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The year 1512 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.

Contents

1 Astronomy
2 Exploration
3 Pharmaceutics
4 Births
5 Deaths
6 References

Astronomy

Possible date - Nicolaus Copernicus begins to write Commentariolus, an abstract of what will eventually become De revolutionibus orbium coelestium; he sends this to other scientists interested in the matter by 1514.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Exploration

António de Abreu discovers Timor island and reaches the Banda Islands and Seram.
Francisco Serrão reaches the Moluccas.
Juan Ponce de León discovers the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Pedro Mascarenhas discovers Diego Garcia and reaches Mauritius in the Mascarene Islands.

Pharmaceutics

Hieronymus Brunschwygk's "Big Book (of Distillation)" describes medicinal herbs and the construction of stills for processing them.

Births

March 5 - Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer (d. 1594)

Deaths

February 22 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (b. 1454)
August 2 - Alessandro Achillini, Italian anatomist (b. 1463)

References

^ Grun, Bernard (1991). The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 229. ISBN 0-671-74919-6.
^ Gingerich, Owen (2004). The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus. New York: Walker. ISBN 0-8027-1415-3.
^ Koyré, Alexandre (1973). The Astronomical Revolution: Copernicus – Kepler – Borelli. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-0504-1.