1548 in science

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 –
• 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

  Births

• April 15 – Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician
• Giordano Bruno, Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, astrologer and astronomer
• Abul Qasim ibn Mohammed al-Ghassani, Moroccan physician
• Jacques de Cahaignes, French physician
• approx. date – Simon Stevin, Flemish scientist

  Deaths

• Pedro Ciruelo, Spanish mathematician
• September 29 – Walther H. Ryff, German science writer