1527 in science
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The year 1527 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.
Mathematics[]
- Petrus Apianus publishes a handbook of commercial arithmetic, Ein newe und wolgegründete underweisung aller Kauffmanns Rechnung in dreyen Büchern, mit schönen Regeln und fragstücken begriffen, at Ingolstadt.[1]
Military science[]
- Albrecht Dürer publishes a treatise on fortifications, Etliche underricht zu Befestigung der Stett, Schloss und Flecken, in Nuremberg.
Births[]
- c. May 1 – Jan Van Ostaeyen (Johannes Stadius), Flemish mathematician and astronomer (died 1579)
- July 13 – John Dee, English alchemist, astrologer and mathematician (died 1609)
Deaths[]
- January 21 – Juan de Grijalva, Spanish explorer (born c. 1489)
- July 28 – Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish explorer (born c. 1460)
References[]
- ^ Depicted in Holbein's painting The Ambassadors (1533) – "Arithmetic Book". Holbein's The Ambassadors and Renaissance Ideas of Knowledge. SUNY. Archived from the original on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-08.
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