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词条 1512 in science
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  1. Astronomy

  2. Exploration

  3. Pharmaceutics

  4. Technology

  5. Births

  6. Deaths

  7. References

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The year 1512 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.

Astronomy

  • Possible date – Nicolaus Copernicus begins to write Commentariolus, an abstract of what will eventually become De revolutionibus orbium coelestium; he sends it to other scientists interested in the matter by 1514.[1][2][3]

Exploration

  • António de Abreu discovers Timor island and reaches the Banda Islands and Seram.
  • Francisco Serrão reaches the Moluccas.
  • Juan Ponce de León discovers the Turks and Caicos Islands.
  • Pedro Mascarenhas discovers Diego Garcia and reaches Mauritius in the Mascarene Islands.

Pharmaceutics

  • Hieronymus Brunschwygk's Big Book (of Distillation) describes medicinal herbs and the construction of stills for processing them.

Technology

  • Martin Waldseemüller (of the Rhineland) produces and describes the first theodolite (which he calls the {{Not a typo|polimetrum}}).[4][5][6]

Births

  • March 5 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer (died 1594)
  • approx. date – Robert Recorde, Welsh-born mathematician and physician (died 1558)[7]

Deaths

  • February 22 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (born 1454)
  • August 2 – Alessandro Achillini, Italian anatomist (born 1463)
  • September 29 – Johannes Engel, German astronomer and physician (born 1453)

References

1. ^{{cite book|first=Bernard|last=Grun|title=The Timetables of History|edition=3rd|location=New York|publisher=Simon & Schuster|year=1991|isbn=0-671-74919-6|page=229}}
2. ^{{cite book|title=The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus|authorlink=Owen Gingerich|last=Gingerich|first=Owen|publisher=Walker|year=2004|isbn=0-8027-1415-3|location=New York}}
3. ^{{cite book|title=The Astronomical Revolution: Copernicus – Kepler – Borelli|last=Koyré|first=Alexandre|publisher=Cornell University Press|year=1973|authorlink=Alexandre Koyré|location=Ithaca, NY|isbn=0-8014-0504-1}}
4. ^In an appendix to Gregorius Reisch's Margarita Philosophica, published in Strasburg.
5. ^{{cite book|last=Daumas|first=Maurice|title=Scientific Instruments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and Their Makers|publisher=Portman|location=London|year=1989|isbn=978-0-7134-0727-3}}
6. ^{{cite book|last=Mills|first=John FitzMaurice|title=Encyclopedia of Antique Scientific Instruments|publisher=Aurum Press|location=London|year=1983|isbn=0-906053-40-4}}
7. ^{{cite web|first=Stephen|last=Johnston|title=Recorde, Robert (c.1512–1558)|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23241|accessdate=2012-01-26|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/23241}} {{ODNBsub}}

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