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Overview of the events of 1501 in science
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1501 in science
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Fields
Technology
Sustainable energy research
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The year
1501 in
science
and
technology
included many events, some of which are listed below.
Astronomy
Nilakantha Somayaji
completes his astronomical treatise
Tantrasamgraha
.
Amerigo Vespucci
maps the two stars
Alpha Centauri
and
Beta Centauri
, as well as the stars of the
constellation
Crux
, which are below the horizon in Europe.
Exploration
March 25 –
Portuguese
navigator
João da Nova
probably discovers
Ascension Island
.
[1]
November 1 (
All Saints
) – Amerigo Vespucci discovers and names
Baía de Todos os Santos
in Brazil.
[2]
Gaspar Corte-Real
makes the first known landing in North America by a Western European explorer this millennium.
[3]
Rodrigo de Bastidas
becomes the first European to explore the
Isthmus of Panama
.
[3]
Medicine
Continuing until 1587, a
pandemic
outbreak of fever, headache, sweating and black tongue spreads through Europe. Initially called
morbus Hungaricus
(the Hungarian disease), it will later be regarded as an outbreak of
typhus
.
[4]
Births
January 17 –
Leonhart Fuchs
, German
botanist
(died
1566
)
March 23 –
Pietro Andrea Mattioli
, Italian
physician
and botanist (died
1577
)
September 24 –
Gerolamo Cardano
, Italian
mathematician
and physician (died
1576
)
approx. date
–
Garcia de Orta
, Portuguese
Sephardi Jewish
physician (died
1568
)
Deaths
presumed date
–
Gaspar Corte-Real
, Portuguese explorer (born 1450)
References
^
Albuquerque, Afonso de (2001).
The commentaries of the great Afonso Dalboquerque, second viceroy of India
, Adamant Media Corporation, p.xx. Issue 55.
ISBN
1-4021-9511-7
.
^
"Américo Vespúcio"
(in Portuguese). UOL Educaçao. 2014. Archived from
the original
on 16 July 2014
. Retrieved
15 December
2014
.
^
a
b
Grun, Bernard (1991).
The Timetables of History
(3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p.
223
.
^
Garrison, Hudson Fielding (1921).
An Introduction to the History of Medicine
. Saunders. p.
239
.
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