1536 in science

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The year 1536 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.

Botany

• Charles Estienne publishes Seminarium, et Plantarium fructiferarum praesertim arborum quae post hortos conseri solent, Denuo auctum & locupletatum. Huic accessit alter libellus de conserendis arboribus in seminario: deque iis in plantarium transserendis atque inserendis in Paris.
• Jean Ruelle publishes De Natura stirpium libri tres in Paris, the first general descriptive botany to be printed.

Exploration

• July 15 – Jacques Cartier's expedition returns to Saint-Malo.
• End of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's expedition in the Americas.

Mathematics

• Adam Ries publishes his book of tables for calculating everyday prices Ein Gerechent Büchlein auff den Schöffel Eimer vnd Pfundtgewicht…

Physiology and medicine

• German physician Johann Dryander (Eichmann) publishes Anatomia capitis humani in Marburg, the first book on the anatomy of the human head.^[1]
• Charles Estienne publishes De vasculis libellus, adulescentulorum causa ex Baysio decerptus. Addita vulgari Latinarum vocum interpretatione in Paris and De re vestiaria libellus, ex Bayfio excerptus: addita vulgaris linguae interpretatione, in adulescentulorum gratiam atque utilitatem in Lyon.
• Paracelsus publishes his work on surgery, Die grosse Wundartzney, in Ulm.
• Sir Thomas Elyot publishes his popular medical text, The Castell of Helth, in London.

Births

• April – Ignazio Danti, Italian mathematician and astronomer (died 1586).
• October 28 – Felix Plater, Swiss physician (died 1614).
• Juan de Fuca, Greek navigator (died 1602).
• Henri de Monantheuil, French mathematician and physician (died 1606).
• Roger Marbeck, English royal physician (died 1605).
• approx. date – Juan Fernández, Spanish explorer (died c. 1604).

Deaths

• Baldassare Peruzzi, Sienese architect (born 1481).

References

1. Lind, L. R. (1975). Studies in pre-Vesalian anatomy: biography, translations, documents. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, 104. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. pp. 12–13. ISBN 0871691043.