1542 in science
The year 1542 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.
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Botany
- Leonhart Fuchs publishes his new herbal De historia stirpium commentarii insignes in Basel.
Exploration
- Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo explores the coast of California.
Physiology and medicine
- Jean Fernel publishes De naturali parte medicinae, presenting human physiology as integral to the study of medicine.[1]
Deaths
- August – Peter Henlein, Nuremberg watchmaker (born 1479/80)
gollark: It's just 3 iron and some processing.
gollark: They all have such irritatingly similar names.
gollark: The TE ones. Not the machine *cases* or RFTools machine frames.
gollark: Better than making machine frames or whatever. I had to make two (2) of those.
gollark: Computers are actually "cheap" by the standards of this pack since they're not gated, merely made of OC parts.
References
- "Jean François Fernel Biography". Encyclopedia of World Biography. Retrieved 2011-10-28.
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