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1516 in science
Overview of the events of 1516 in science
List of years in science
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1516 in science
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Fields
Technology
Sustainable energy research
Transportation technology
Social sciences
Psychology
Governance and policy studies
Paleontology
Dinosaurs' extinction
Extraterrestrial environment
Terrestrial environment
Other/related
Literature
Timeline of cosmological theories
List of open letters by academics
History of technology by type
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e
The year
1516 in
science
and
technology
included many events, some of which are listed here.
Astronomy and space science
The fall of the
Nantan meteorite
is possibly observed near the city of Nantan,
Nandan County
,
Guangxi
(China).
Exploration
January – The
Río de la Plata
is first explored by Europeans when Spanish navigator
Juan Díaz de Solís
traverses it during his search for a passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
[1]
Births
March 26 –
Conrad Gessner
, Swiss
naturalist
(died
1565
)
November 5 –
Martin Helwig
,
Silesian
cartographer
(died
1574
)
Realdo Colombo
, Italian
anatomist
(died
1559
)
Deaths
December 13 –
Johannes Trithemius
, German scholar and
cryptographer
(born 1462)
References
^
"Río de la Plata"
.
Encyclopædia Britannica
. Retrieved
2010-08-11
.