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The year 1544 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Botany
- Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, under the direction of Luca Ghini, who also creates the first herbarium.
- Publication of Valerius Cordus' herbal Historia Plantarum.
- Publication of
Geography
- Sebastian Münster's description of the world, Cosmographia, is published in Basel.
Geology
- Georgius Agricola publishes De ortu et causis subterraneorum, laying the foundations of modern physical geology.
Geophysics
- Magnetic dip is first described in Europe by Georg Hartmann.[2][3][4][5]
Mathematics
- exponent, and a table of integers and powers of two considered as an early version of a logarithmic table.[6][7]
Zoology
- William Turner's Avium praecipuarum, quarum apud Plinium et Aristotelem mentio est, brevis et succincta historia is published in Cologne, the first printed book devoted entirely to ornithology.
Births
- Joseph Duchesne, French physician and alchemist (died 1609).[8]
Deaths
- September 24 – botanist (born 1515).
- Nilakantha Somayaji, Keralan mathematician and astronomer (born 1444).
References
- JSTOR 2399094.
- ISBN 0-521-45714-9.
- ^ Jonkers, Art R.T. (2004). "Erdmagnetismus zur Zeit der Seefahrer" (PDF). Physik Journal: 55–59. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2005-09-09. Retrieved 2011-04-20.
- ^ Klemm, H. G. (1990). Georg Hartmann aus Eggolsheim (1489–1564): Leben und Werk eines fräkischen Mathematiker und Ingenieurs. Wissenschaftliche und künsterlische Beiträge, Ehrenburg-Gymnasium Forscheim, Heft 8. Forscheim.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Klemm, Hans Gunther (1994). Magnetismus-Beobachtungen Bei Den Humanistischen Mathematikern Georg Hartmann und Georg Joachim Rheticus. Erlangen.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Ball, W. W. Rouse (1908). A Short Account of the History of Mathematics. Macmillan and Co. p. 216.
- ISBN 978-0-03-077670-0.
- ^ "Joseph Du Chesne (Sieur de la Violette, 1544-1609)". data.bnf.fr. Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 23 December 2020.