1528 in science

Overview of the events of 1528 in science

The year 1528 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.

Events

• Paracelsus leaves Basel.

Exploration

• February – Diego García de Moguer explores the Sierra de la Plata along the Río de la Plata and begins to travel up the Paraná River.^[1]
• November 6 – Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and his companions become the first Europeans known to set foot on the territory of Texas.
• Jean Fernel publishes Cosmotheoria, including a means of determining a degree of arc of the meridian.

Medicine

• May – The fourth major outbreak of the sweating sickness occurs in England,^[2] also spreading to northern Europe.

Births

• October 10 – Adam Lonicer, German botanist, naturalist and physician (died 1586)
• Adam von Bodenstein, Swiss alchemist and physician (died 1577)

Deaths

• April 6 – Albrecht Dürer, German artist and polymath (born 1471)^[3]
• Martín Fernández de Enciso, Spanish explorer (born c. 1470)
• Al-Birjandi, Persian astronomer and mathematician
• Giovanni da Verrazzano, Italian-born explorer (born 1485) (killed and eaten by Carib people)^[4]

References

1. Los viajes de Diego García de Moguer.
2. Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 142–145. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
3. Müller, Peter O. (1993). Substantiv-Derivation in den Schriften Albrecht Dürers. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3-11-012815-2.
4. Wroth, Lawrence C. (1970). The Voyages of Giovanni da Verrazzano, 1524-1528. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 237. ISBN 0-300-01207-1.