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1519 in science
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1519 science
1519
The year 1519 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
Exploration
September 20 – Ferdinand Magellan's fleet sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda to find a westabout route to Asia.
"Miller Atlas" produced in Portugal.
Medicine
A pandemic spreads from the Greater Antilles into Central America, and perhaps as far as Peru, killing much of the indigenous populations in these areas.Alfred W. Jr. Crosby The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 Westport, CT Greenwood Press 1972 0-8371-5821-4
Publication in Paris of Thomas Linacre's translation into Latin of Galen's Methodus medendi.
Births
June 6 – Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (died 1603)
Deaths
May 2 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian polymath (born 1452)
References
Category:16th century in science
Category:1510s in science