1548 in science explained

The year 1548 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.

Events

• February 14 – Battle of Uedahara: Firearms are used for the first time on the battlefield in Japan.
• August 10 – Debate in Milan between mathematicians Lodovico Ferrari and Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia concerning the algebraic method for resolving third-degree equations.^[1]
• John Dee starts to study at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Publications

• Georgius Agricola – De animantibus subterraneis
• Valerius Cordus – (posthumous)
• Rembert Dodoens –
• Gemma Frisius –
• William Turner – The names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Englishe Duche and Frenche wyth the commune names that Herbaries and Apotecaries use

Births

• April 15 – Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (died 1626)
• Giordano Bruno, Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, astrologer and astronomer (k. 1600)
• Abul Qasim ibn Mohammed al-Ghassani, Moroccan physician (died 1610)
• approx. date – Simon Stevin, Flemish scientist (died 1620)

Notes and References

1. Book: Débats et controverses. Editions Parenthèses. 1997. 978-2-86364-905-3. 2011-08-05.