Overview of the events of 1534 in science
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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.
- 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.
- Stefan Falimierz publishes On Herbs and Their Potency (O ziolach y o moczy gich).
Births
- September 28 − Samuel Eisenmenger, German physician and mathematician (died 1585)
- November 6 – Joachim Camerarius the Younger, German physician and botanist (died 1598)
- undated − Volcher Coiter, Dutch anatomist (died 1576)
Deaths
- December 13 − Paul of Middelburg, Flemish scientist and bishop (born 1446)
- December 23 – Otto Brunfels, German botanist (born c. 1488)
References
- Grun, Bernard (1991). The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 239. ISBN 0-671-74919-6.