1530 in science
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The year 1530 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
Botany
- Otto Brunfels begins publication of his illustrated botanical catalogue Herbarium vivae icones, based on his own observations and giving the plants their German vernacular names.
Earth sciences
- Georgius Agricola publishes Bermannus, sive de re metallica dialogus, his first work on scientific metallurgy.
Mathematics
- Approximate date – Jyeṣṭhadeva, a member of the Kerala School of Astronomy and Mathematics in India, writes the Yuktibhāṣā, the world's first known text on the foundations of calculus.
Medicine
- The name syphilis is coined by the Italian physician and poet Girolamo Fracastoro in his epic poem, Syphilis sive morbus gallicus.
- The first book devoted to dentistry, the Artzney Buchlein, is published.{{cite web|url=http://www.ada.org/sections/educationAndCareers/pdfs/faq_dentistry.pdf|title=FAQS On the History of Dentistry|accessdate=2013-12-23|publisher=American Dental Association|url-status=dead|format=PDF|website=Archives of the American Dental Association|at=What was the name of the first book on dentistry?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131223154707/http://www.ada.org/sections/educationAndCareers/pdfs/faq_dentistry.pdf|archive-date=2013-12-23}}
Births
- September 30 – Girolamo Mercuriale, Italian physician (died 1606)
- Mathew Baker, English shipwright (died 1613)
- 1529 or 1530 – Julius Caesar Aranzi, Italian anatomist (died 1589)
- approx. date – Thomas Penny, English botanist and entomologist (died 1589)
Deaths
- Jacopo Berengario da Carpi, Italian anatomist (born 1460)