title: 1504 in science
text: # 1504 in science
  
  The year 1504 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed below.
  
  ## Cartography
  
  * probable date – Pedro Reinel's Atlantic chart is the earliest known nautical chart with a scale of latitudes, and with a wind rose having a clear fleur-de-lys.
  
  ## Exploration
  
  * February 29 – Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse this night to convince Jamaican tribesmen to provide him with supplies.
  * November 7 – Columbus returns to Spain from his fourth and last voyage, in which he and his younger son, Ferdinand, explored the coast of Central America from Belize to Panama.
  
  ## Births
  
  * Charles Estienne, French anatomist (died 1564)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * June 19 – Bernhard Walther, German astronomer (born 1430).
  * exact date unknown – Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara (born 1454), Italian astronomer.
  