1528 in science

Events

• Paracelsus leaves Basel.

  Exploration

• February – Diego García de Moguer explores the Sierra de la Plata along the Río de la Plata and begins to travel up the Paraná River.
• November 6 – Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and his companions become the first Europeans known to set foot on the territory of Texas.
• Jean Fernel publishes Cosmotheoria, including a means of determining a degree of arc of the meridian.

  Medicine

• May – The fourth major outbreak of the sweating sickness occurs in England, also spreading to northern Europe.

  Births

• October 10 – Adam Lonicer, German botanist, naturalist and physician
• Adam von Bodenstein, Swiss alchemist and physician

  Deaths

• April 6 – Albrecht Dürer, German artist and polymath
• Martín Fernández de Enciso, Spanish explorer
• Al-Birjandi, Persian astronomer and mathematician
• Giovanni da Verrazzano, Italian-born explorer