1524 In Science
The year 1524 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here. Exploration and geography * January 17 – Republic of Florence, Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, on board ''La Dauphine'' in the service of Francis I of France, sets out from Madeira for the New World to seek out a westabout sea route to the Pacific Ocean. * March 1 ''(approximate date)'' – da Verrazzano's expedition makes landfall at Cape Fear (headland), Cape Fear. * April 17 – da Verrazzano's expedition makes the first European entry into New York Bay. * July 8 – da Verrazzano's expedition returns to Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, Dieppe. * Petrus Apianus publishes ''Cosmographicus liber'' in Landshut, a popular textbook on navigation. Mathematics * Adam Ries publishes his algebraic text ''Coß''. Births * September 7 – Thomas Erastus, Swiss people, Swiss physician and theologian (died 1583 in science, 1583) * ''probable date'' – Thomas Tusser, English people, ...
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Thomas Erastus
Thomas Erastus (original surname Lüber, Lieber, or Liebler; 7 September 152431 December 1583) was a Swiss physician and Calvinist theologian. He wrote 100 theses (later reduced to 75) in which he argued that the sins committed by Christians should be punished by the State, and that the Church should not withhold sacraments as a form of punishment. They were published in 1589, after his death, with the title . His name was later applied to Erastianism. Biography He was born of poor parents on 7 September 1524, probably at Baden, canton of Aargau, Switzerland. In 1540 he was studying theology at the University of Basel. The plague of 1544 drove him to the University of Bologna and from there to the University of Padua as student of philosophy and medicine. In 1553 he became physician to the count of Henneberg, Saxe-Meiningen, and in 1558 held the same post with the elector-palatine, Otto Heinrich, being at the same time professor of medicine at the University of Heidelberg. Hi ...