1516 in science
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The year 1516 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
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 (died 1565)
- November 5 – Martin Helwig, Silesian cartographer (died 1574)
- Realdo Colombo, Italian anatomist (died 1559)
Deaths
- December 13 – Johannes Trithemius, German scholar and cryptographer (born 1462)
References
- ↑ "Río de la Plata". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2010-08-11.