1545 in science

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The year 1545 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Contents

1 Botany
2 Mathematics
3 Medicine
4 Births
5 Deaths

Botany

Orto botanico di Padova and di Firenze botanical gardens established.

Mathematics

Gerolamo Cardano publishes his algebra text Ars Magna, including the first published solutions to cubic and quartic equations.

Medicine

Charles Estienne publishes De dissectione partium corporis humani, libri tres, including a description of the venous valves of the liver.
Ambroise Paré publishes his first book, a treatise on battlefield medicine, La méthode de traicter les playes faictes par hacquebutes et aultres bastons à feu et de celles qui sont faictes par flèches, dardz et semblables, in Paris.

Births

January 11 - Guidobaldo del Monte, Italian mathematician (d. 1607)
John Gerard, English botanist (d. 1611 or 1612)

Deaths

Christoph Rudolff, Silesian mathematician (b. 1499)