1501 in science explained

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)

Notes and References

1. Albuquerque, Afonso de (2001). The commentaries of the great Afonso Dalboquerque, second viceroy of India, Adamant Media Corporation, p.xx. Issue 55. .
2. Web site: Américo Vespúcio . 2014 . UOL Educaçao . 15 December 2014 . pt . https://web.archive.org/web/20140716163809/http://educacao.uol.com.br/biografias/americo-vespucio.jhtm . 16 July 2014 . dead .
3. Book: Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. registration. 3rd. New York. Simon & Schuster. 1991. 223.
4. Book: Garrison, Hudson Fielding. An Introduction to the History of Medicine. 1921. Saunders. 239.