1530 in science
The year 1530 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
Botany
- Otto Brunfels begins publication of his illustrated botanical catalogue Herbarium vivae icones, based on his own observations and giving the plants their German vernacular names.
Earth sciences
- Georgius Agricola publishes Bermannus, sive de re metallica dialogus, his first work on scientific metallurgy.
Mathematics
- Approximate date – Jyeṣṭhadeva, a member of the Kerala School of Astronomy and Mathematics in India, writes the Yuktibhāṣā, the world's first known text on the foundations of calculus.
Medicine
- The name syphilis is coined by the Italian physician and poet Girolamo Fracastoro in his epic poem, Syphilis sive morbus gallicus.
- The first book devoted to dentistry, the Artzney Buchlein, is published.
Births
- September 30 – Girolamo Mercuriale, Italian physician
- Mathew Baker, English shipwright
- 1529 or 1530 – Julius Caesar Aranzi, Italian anatomist approx. date – Thomas Penny, English botanist and entomologist
Deaths
- Jacopo Berengario da Carpi, Italian anatomist