1548 in science
The year 1548 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.
Events
- February 14 – Battle of Uedahara: Firearms are used for the first time on the battlefield in Japan.
- August 10 – Debate in Milan between mathematicians Lodovico Ferrari and Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia concerning the algebraic method for resolving third-degree equations.
- John Dee starts to study at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Publications
- Georgius Agricola – De animantibus subterraneis
- Valerius Cordus – Pharmacorum conficiendorum ratio
- Rembert Dodoens – Cosmographica in astronomiam et geographiam isagoge
- Gemma Frisius – De Orbis divisione et insulis rebusque nuper inventis
- William Turner – ''The names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Englishe Duche and Frenche wyth the commune names that Herbaries and Apotecaries use''