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1542 in science

overview of natural science-related events during the year of 1542

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ630595 ↗
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The year 1542 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.

Botany

Leonhart Fuchs publishes his new herbal De historia stirpium commentarii insignes in Basel.

Exploration

Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo explores the coast of California.

Physiology and medicine

Jean Fernel publishes De naturali parte medicinae, presenting human physiology as integral to the study of medicine.

Births

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This entry incorporates text from “1542 in science” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.