1544 in science

none 1544 science 1544 The year 1544 in science and technology involved some significant events. Botany Orto botanico di Pisa botanical garden established by Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, under the direction of Luca Ghini, who also creates the first herbarium. Publication of Valerius Cordus' herbal Historia Plantarum. Publication of Pietro Andrea Mattioli's Discorsi ("Commentaries") on the Materia Medica of Dioscorides, adding descriptions of some plants not of medical use, including the first reference to the tomato in Europe.George Allen The History of the Use of the Tomato: An Annotated Bibliography Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 39 4 November 1952 291 10.2307/2399094 2399094 https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/22432 Geography Sebastian Münster's description of the world, Cosmographia, is published in Basel. Geology Georgius Agricola publishes De ortu et causis subterraneorum, laying the foundations of modern physical geology. Geophysics Magnetic dip is first described in Europe by Georg Hartmann.Kivelson, Margaret G. Russell, Christopher T. 1995 Introduction to Space Physics https://archive.org/details/introductiontosp00kive_617 limited Cambridge University Press 0-521-45714-9 3–5Art R.T. Jonkers 2004 Erdmagnetismus zur Zeit der Seefahrer Physik Journal 55–59 http://www.liv.ac.uk/~jonkers/physikjournal.pdf 2011-04-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20050909033634/http://www.liv.ac.uk/~jonkers/physikjournal.pdf 2005-09-09 deadH. G. Klemm Georg Hartmann aus Eggolsheim (1489–1564): Leben und Werk eines fräkischen Mathematiker und Ingenieurs Wissenschaftliche und künsterlische Beiträge, Ehrenburg-Gymnasium Forscheim, Heft 8 Forscheim 1990Hans Gunther Klemm Magnetismus-Beobachtungen Bei Den Humanistischen Mathematikern Georg Hartmann und Georg Joachim Rheticus Erlangen 1994 Mathematics Michael Stifel's Arithmetica integra is published in Nuremberg, containing the first European use of multiplication by juxtaposition, the first use of the term exponent, and a table of integers and powers of two considered as an early version of a logarithmic table.A Short Account of the History of Mathematics W. W. Rouse Ball W. W. Rouse Ball Macmillan and Co 1908 216 https://books.google.com/books?id=egY6AAAAMAAJ&dq=%22arithmetica+integra%22+logarithms&pg=PA216Precalculus Mathematics Vivian Shaw Groza Susanne M. Shelley 1972 978-0-03-077670-0 182 Ardent Media https://books.google.com/books?id=yM_lSq1eJv8C&dq=%22arithmetica+integra%22+logarithm&pg=PA182 Zoology William Turner's Avium praecipuarum, quarum apud Plinium et Aristotelem mentio est, brevis et succincta historia is published in Cologne, the first printed book devoted entirely to ornithology. Births Joseph Duchesne, French physician and alchemist (died 1609).Joseph Du Chesne (Sieur de la Violette, 1544-1609) https://data.bnf.fr/fr/12396854/joseph_du_chesne/ data.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France 23 December 2020 Deaths September 24 – Valerius Cordus, German physician and botanist (born 1515). Nilakantha Somayaji, Keralan mathematician and astronomer (born 1444). References Category:1544 Category:16th century in science Category:1540s in science