1534 in science

The year 1534 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.

Astronomy

 * Oronce Finé publishes Quadrans astrolabicus in Paris.

Exploration

 * April 20 – September 5 – Expedition of Jacques Cartier to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
 * May 10 – Cartier reaches Newfoundland.
 * June 9 – Cartier is the first European to discover the Saint Lawrence River.

Mathematics

 * Petrus Apianus publishes Primi Mobilis Instrumentum in Nuremberg, on trigonometry and containing tables of sines.

Medicine

 * Girolamo Fracastoro publishes Di Vini Temperatura.
 * Stefan Falimierz publishes On Herbs and Their Potency (O ziolach y o moczy gich).

Births

 * September 28 − Samuel Eisenmenger, German physician and mathematician (died 1585)
 * November 6 – Joachim Camerarius the Younger, German physician and botanist (died 1598)
 * undated − Volcher Coiter, Dutch anatomist (died 1576)

Deaths

 * December 13 − Paul of Middelburg, Flemish scientist and bishop (born 1446)
 * December 23 – Otto Brunfels, German botanist (born c. 1488)