1548 in science

The year 1548 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.

Events

• February 14 - Battle of Uedahara: Firearms are used for the first time on the battlefield in Japan.
• August 10 - Debate in Milan between mathematicians Lodovico Ferrari and Niccolo 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 - De animantibus subterraneis
• Valerius Cordus - Pharmacorum conficiendorum ratio (posthumous)
• Rembert Dodoens - Cosmographica in astronomiam et geographiam isagoge
• Gemma Frisius - De Orbis divisione et insulis rebusque nuper inventis
• William Turner - The names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Englishe Duche and Frenche wyth the commune names that Herbaries and Apotecaries use

Births

• April 15 - Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1626)
• Giordano Bruno, Italian astronomer and philosopher (k. 1600)
• Jacques de Cahaignes, French physician (d. 1612)
• approx. date - Simon Stevin, Flemish scientist (d. 1620)

Deaths

• Pedro Ciruelo, Spanish mathematician (b. 1470)
• September 29 - Walther H. Ryff, German science writer (b. c.1500)

References