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1516 in science
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The year
1516 in
science
and
technology
included many events, some of which are listed here.
Contents
1
Exploration
2
Births
3
Deaths
4
References
Exploration
The
Río de la Plata
is first explored by Europeans when
Spanish
navigator
Juan Díaz de Solís
traverses it during his search for a passage between the
Atlantic
and
Pacific Oceans
.
[
1
]
Births
March 26 -
Conrad Gessner
,
Swiss
naturalist
(d.
1565
)
November 5 -
Martin Helwig
,
Silesian
cartographer
(d.
1574
)
Deaths
December 13 -
Johannes Trithemius
,
German
scholar and
cryptographer
(b.
1462
)
References
^
"Río de la Plata"
.
Encyclopædia Britannica
.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/463804/Rio-de-la-Plata
. Retrieved 2010-08-11
.