1521_in_science
1521 in science
Overview of the events of 1521 in science
The year 1521 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
- January – Antonio Pigafetta, sailing with Magellan's expedition, observes Magellanic Clouds.
- Francisco de Gordillo explores the Atlantic coast up to South Carolina.[1]
- March 6 – Ferdinand Magellan discovers Guam in the Mariana Islands.
- March 16 – Magellan reaches the Philippines.
- April 7 – Magellan arrives at Cebu Island.
- November 8 – Magellan's expedition, now led by Juan Sebastián Elcano, arrives in the Maluku Islands.
- Jacopo Berengario da Carpi publishes Commentaria cum amplissimus additionibus super anatomiam Mundini in Bologna, containing the first printed anatomical illustrations taken from nature and including observation of the vermiform appendix.
- Valentin Mennher, German mathematician (d. c.1571).
- approx. date – Richard Chancellor, English Arctic explorer (drowned 1556).
- April 27 – Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer (born c.1480) (killed in the Philippines).
- July 8 – Jorge Álvares, Portuguese explorer.
- Francisco Serrão, Portuguese explorer.
- Grun, Bernard (1991). The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 233. ISBN 0-671-74919-6.