1512 in science

none 1512 science 1512 The year 1512 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here. Astronomy Possible date – Nicolaus Copernicus begins to write Commentariolus, an abstract of what will eventually become De revolutionibus orbium coelestium; he sends it to other scientists interested in the matter by 1514.Bernard Grun The Timetables of History 3rd New York Simon & Schuster 1991 0-671-74919-6 229 https://archive.org/details/timetablesofhist1991grun registrationThe Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus Owen Gingerich Gingerich Owen Walker 2004 0-8027-1415-3 New York https://archive.org/details/booknobodyreadch00gingThe Astronomical Revolution: Copernicus – Kepler – Borelli Koyré Alexandre Cornell University Press 1973 Alexandre Koyré Ithaca, NY 0-8014-0504-1 Exploration António de Abreu discovers Timor island and reaches the Banda Islands and Seram. Francisco Serrão reaches the Moluccas. Juan Ponce de León discovers the Turks and Caicos Islands. Pedro Mascarenhas discovers Diego Garcia and reaches Mauritius in the Mascarene Islands. Pharmaceutics Hieronymus Brunschwygk's Big Book (of Distillation) describes medicinal herbs and the construction of stills for processing them. Technology Martin Waldseemüller (of the Rhineland) produces and describes the first theodolite (which he calls the polimetrum).In an appendix to Gregorius Reisch's Margarita Philosophica, published in Strasburg.Daumas Maurice Scientific Instruments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and Their Makers Portman London 1989 978-0-7134-0727-3Mills John FitzMaurice Encyclopedia of Antique Scientific Instruments Aurum Press London 1983 0-906053-40-4 Births March 5 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer (died 1594) approx. date – Robert Recorde, Welsh-born mathematician and physician (died 1558)Stephen Johnston Recorde, Robert (c.1512–1558) 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23241 2012-01-26 10.1093/ref:odnb/23241 Deaths February 22 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (born 1454) August 2 – Alessandro Achillini, Italian anatomist (born 1463) September 29 – Johannes Engel, German astronomer and physician (born 1453)Trimble Virginia Williams Thomas R. Bracher Katherine Jarrell Richard Marché Jordan D. Ragep F. Jamil Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers 18 September 2007 Springer Science & Business Media 978-0-387-30400-7 339 https://books.google.com/books?id=t-BF1CHkc50C&pg=PA339 en References Category:16th century in science Category:1510s in science