1524 in science
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The year 1524 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.
Exploration and geography
- January 17 – Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, on board La Dauphine in the service of Francis I of France, sets out from Madeira for the New World to seek out a westabout sea route to the Pacific Ocean.
- March 1 (approximate date) – da Verrazzano's expedition makes landfall at Cape Fear.
- April 17 – da Verrazzano's expedition makes the first European entry into New York Bay.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kpMGlc-cvAoC&q=%22La+Dauphine%22+verrazano&pg=PA37|last=Paine|first=Lincoln P.|title=Ships of Discovery and Exploration|location=New York|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|year=2000|isbn=0-395-98415-7|page=37}}{{cite book|first=Bernard|last=Grun|title=The Timetables of History|edition=3rd|location=New York|publisher=Simon & Schuster|year=1991|isbn=0-671-74919-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/timetablesofhist1991grun/page/235 235]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/timetablesofhist1991grun}}
- July 8 – da Verrazzano's expedition returns to Dieppe.
- Petrus Apianus publishes Cosmographicus liber in Landshut, a popular textbook on navigation.
Mathematics
- Adam Ries publishes his algebraic text Coß.
Births
- September 7 – Thomas Erastus, Swiss physician and theologian (died 1583)
- probable date – Thomas Tusser, English chorister and agriculturalist (died 1580)
Deaths
- August 28 – Fazio Cardano, Italian mathematician (born 1444)
- December 20 – Thomas Linacre, English physician (born 1460)
- December 24 – Vasco da Gama, Portuguese navigator (born c. 1469)