1548 in science
The year 1548 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.
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Events
- February 14 – Battle of Uedahara: Firearms are used for the first time on the battlefield in Japan.
- August 10 – Debate in Milan between mathematicians Lodovico Ferrari and Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia concerning the algebraic method for resolving third-degree equations.[1]
- John Dee starts to study at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Publications
- Georgius Agricola – De animantibus subterraneis
- Valerius Cordus – Pharmacorum conficiendorum ratio (posthumous)
- Rembert Dodoens – Cosmographica in astronomiam et geographiam isagoge
- Gemma Frisius – De Orbis divisione et insulis rebusque nuper inventis
- William Turner – The names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Englishe Duche and Frenche wyth the commune names that Herbaries and Apotecaries use
Births
- April 15 – Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (died 1626)
- Giordano Bruno, Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, astrologer and astronomer (k. 1600)
- Abul Qasim ibn Mohammed al-Ghassani, Moroccan physician (died 1610)
- Jacques de Cahaignes, French physician (died 1612)
- approx. date – Simon Stevin, Flemish scientist (died 1620)
Deaths
- Pedro Ciruelo, Spanish mathematician (born 1470)
- September 29 – Walther H. Ryff, German science writer (born c. 1500)
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gollark: I mean, they might be reading your crypto secrets out of RAM, and... do you just assume that *some* of them won't be evil and just rerun the computation if the result don't match, or something?
gollark: If you don't trust your compute nodes, you basically can't do anything.
gollark: > The Internet Computer is a decentralized cloud computing platform that will host secure software and a new breed of open internet services. It uses a strong cryptographic consensus protocol to safely replicate computations over a peer-to-peer network of (potentially untrusted) compute nodes, possibly overlayed with many virtual subnetworks (sometimes called shards). Wasm’s advantageous properties made it an obvious choice for representing programs running on this platform. We also liked the idea of not limiting developers to just one dedicated platform language, but making it potentially open to “all of ’em.”How is *that* meant to work?
gollark: ... "internet computer"? Oh bees.
References
- Débats et controverses. Editions Parenthèses. 1997. ISBN 978-2-86364-905-3. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
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