Christopher Columbus is born as is Amerigo Vespucci (d. 1512), explorers.
Jan 16, 1462
One of the major publications of Renaissance natural philosophy, the Epitome of Ptolemy's Almagest appears; the authors, Georg Peurbach
Jan 16, 1469
Publication of the highly influential Corpus Hermeticum, a collection of writings (we now know) to have been written in the early Christian era but then thought to have been written with great authority by Hermes Trismegistus
Jan 16, 1472
Georg Peurbach's New Theory of the Planets (1454) sought to reconcile geometric descriptive models for predicting planetary motions by employing homocentric (nested concentric) celestial spheres.
Jan 16, 1473
Nicolas Copernicus born
Jan 16, 1486
The Malleus Malificarum (The Hammer of the Witches) is published as an influential guidebook to identifying witches and bringing them to punishment.
Jan 16, 1494
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) attacks practical magic, especially, astrology, as it calls into questions traditional notions of human free will; this concern underscores longstanding issues associated with the Condemnations of 1270
Jan 16, 1514
The initial appearance of the heliocentric theory of Nicholas Copernicus
