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.[1]
Exploration
- Portuguese reach the Comoros archipelago.
- Bermuda is discovered by Spanish explorer Juan de Bermúdez.[2]
- 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.[3]
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
- ^ Pedretti, Carlo (1962). A Chronology of Leonardo Da Vinci's Architectural Studies after 1500. Geneva: E. Droz. p. 37.
- ^ Morison, Samuel (1974). The European Discovery of America: The Southern Voyages, 1492–1616. Oxford University Press.
- ^ Grun, Bernard (1991). The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 225. ISBN 0-671-74919-6.