1530 in science

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.

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)