1534 in science

The year 1534 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.

Astronomy

• Oronce Finé publishes Quadrans astrolabicus in Paris.

Exploration

• April 20 – September 5 – Expedition of Jacques Cartier to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.^[1]
  • May 10 – Cartier reaches Newfoundland.
  • June 9 – Cartier is the first European to discover the Saint Lawrence River.

Mathematics

• Petrus Apianus publishes Primi Mobilis Instrumentum in Nuremberg, on trigonometry and containing tables of sines.

Medicine

• Girolamo Fracastoro publishes Di Vini Temperatura.

Births

• November 6 – Joachim Camerarius the Younger, German physician and botanist (died 1598)
• undated
  • Volcher Coiter, Dutch anatomist (died 1576)
  • Samuel Eisenmenger, German physician and mathematician (died 1585)

Deaths

• December 23 – Otto Brunfels, German botanist (born c. 1488)
• prob. date – Antonio Pigafetta, Italian circumnavigator (born c. 1491)

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