The year 1548 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.
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 – De animantibus subterraneis Valerius Cordus – (posthumous) Rembert Dodoens – Gemma Frisius – 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 (died 1626) Giordano Bruno, Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, astrologer and astronomer (k. 1600) Abul Qasim ibn Mohammed al-Ghassani, Moroccan physician (died 1610) approx. date – Simon Stevin, Flemish scientist (died 1620)
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