1526 in science
The year 1526 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
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Events
- Publication of Peter Treveris's The Grete Herball (a translation of Le Grant Herbier) in England.[1]
- May 23 – Transit of Venus occurs
Births
- February 19 – Carolus Clusius, Flemish botanist (died 1609)
- Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, Arab astronomer and inventor (died c. 1585)
Deaths
- Eucharius Rösslin, German obstetrician (born c. 1470)
gollark: Real programmers use osmarkslisp™.
gollark: ```lisp (let (qsort xs cont) (cond ((= xs '()) (cont '())) (true (do (let h (head xs)) (let t (tail xs)) (let part_result (partition_rec t (lambda (x) (< x h)) '(() ()))) (qsort (head part_result) (lambda (ls) (qsort (snd part_result) (lambda (rs) (cont (+ ls (list h) rs)))))) )) ))```↑ provably optimal sorting algorithm
gollark: Well, in Haskell you would just use the highly efficient quicksort from somewhere.
gollark: Carbohydrates?
gollark: Oh no. I forgot how merge sort works. Oh apioid.
References
- Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair (1974). The Old English Herbals. London: Minerva Press. pp. 65–67. ISBN 0856360031.
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