1524 in science

The year 1524 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.

Exploration and geography

January 17 – Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, on board La Dauphine in the service of Francis I of France, sets out from Madeira for the New World to seek out a westabout sea route to the Pacific Ocean.
March 1 (approximate date) – da Verrazzano's expedition makes landfall at Cape Fear.
April 17 – da Verrazzano's expedition makes the first European entry into New York Bay.^[1]^[2]
July 8 – da Verrazzano's expedition returns to Dieppe.
Petrus Apianus publishes Cosmographicus liber in Landshut, a popular textbook on navigation.^[2]

September 7 – Thomas Erastus, Swiss physician and theologian (died 1583)
probable date – Thomas Tusser, English chorister and agriculturalist (died 1580)

↑ Paine, Lincoln P. (2000). Ships of Discovery and Exploration. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 37. ISBN 0-395-98415-7.
1 2 Grun, Bernard (1991). The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 235. ISBN 0-671-74919-6.

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