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1505 in science

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The year 1505 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed below.

Biology

  • approx. date – Leonardo da Vinci produces his Codex on the Flight of Birds.

Exploration

  • Portuguese reach the Comoros archipelago.
  • Bermuda is discovered by Spanish explorer Juan de Bermúdez.
  • 1505 or 1506 – Portuguese explorer Gonçalo Álvares is the first to sight what will later be known as Gough Island.

Mathematics

  • Scipione del Ferro solves the depressed cubic equation.

Mineralogy

  • Ulrich Rülein von Calw publishes Eyn wohlgeordnet und nützlich Büchlein, wie man bergwerk suchen und finden Soll ("A well-ordered and useful little book about how to seek and find mines") in Augsburg, the first scientific treatment of mining in Germany.

Technology

  • First known reference to a wheellock gun.

Births

  • May 20 – Levinus Lemnius, Dutch physician (d. 1568)
  • Giovan Battista Bellaso, Italian cryptologist

Deaths

  • Gabriele Zerbi, Veronese gerontologist (b. 1445; sawn in half by disaffected sons of a deceased patient)

References

References

  1. Pedretti, Carlo. (1962). "A Chronology of Leonardo Da Vinci's Architectural Studies after 1500". E. Droz.
  2. Morison, Samuel. (1974). "The European Discovery of America: The Southern Voyages, 1492–1616". Oxford University Press.
  3. Grun, Bernard. (1991). "The Timetables of History". Simon & Schuster.
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