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.
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Georgius Agricola publishes Bermannus, sive de re metallica dialogus, his first work on scientific metallurgy.
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