1513 in science

Overview of the events of 1513 in science

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The year 1513 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.

## Exploration and cartography[edit]

* March 27 – Juan Ponce de León becomes the first European definitely known to sight the modern-day territory of the United States, specifically Florida, mistaking it for another island. His expedition lands on April 2.[1]
* May – Portuguese explorer Jorge Álvares lands on Lintin Island in the Pearl River estuary.[1]
* September 26 – Vasco Núñez de Balboa, "silent upon a peak in Darién", first sees what will become known as the Pacific Ocean.[1]
* Portuguese land on Ambon Island.
* Piri Reis map compiled.
* Publication in Oppenheim of Johannes Stöffler's treatise on the construction and use of astrolabes, Elucidatio fabricae ususque astrolabii.

## Physiology and medicine[edit]

* Eucharius Rösslin publishes Der Rosengarten, an obstetrics manual primarily for midwives written in German which will be widely translated and circulated in Europe.

## Births[edit]

* Jacques Daléchamps, French physician and botanist (died 1588)

## Deaths[edit]

* Ibn Ghazi al-Miknasi, Moroccan scholar and mathematician (born 1437)
* Hua Sui, Chinese pioneer of metal movable type printing (born 1439)

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c Grun, Bernard (1991). The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 229. ISBN 0-671-74919-6.

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