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The year 1543 in science and technology includes the 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus publication De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) often cited as the beginning of the Scientific Revolution,[1] and also includes many other events, some of which are listed here.
Astronomy
- heliocentric universe. It is often cited as the beginning of the Scientific Revolution.[1]
Mathematics
- Robert Recorde publishes The Grounde of Artes, teaching the Worke and Practise of Arithmeticke, both in whole numbers and fractions, one of the first printed elementary arithmetic textbooks in English and the first to cover algebra. It will go through around forty-five editions in the following century and a half.[2]
- into Italian, the first into any modern European language.
Medicine
De humani corporis fabrica
- artificial respirationof a canine subject.
Technology
- Lighthouse of Genoa completed in present form.[4]
Births
- Domenico Fontana (died 1607), Swiss-born architect.[5]
- approximate date – William Clowes (died 1604), English surgeon.
Deaths
- January 3 – Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (born c. 1499), Portuguese explorer.
- May 24 – Polish astronomer.
References
- ^ a b Juan Valdez, The Snow Cone Diaries: A Philosopher's Guide to the Information Age, p 367.
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- ISBN 0-333-24827-9.
- ^ Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Italy: Liguria". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- ^ "The Theater that was Rome – Biography". library.brown.edu. Retrieved 3 April 2018.