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The year 1517 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.
Medicine
A third epidemic of sweating sickness in England hits Oxford and Cambridge.Carmichael Ann Sweating Sickness 1993 The Cambridge World History of Human Disease 1023–1025 Kiple Kenneth F. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-world-history-of-human-disease/sweating-sickness/55A7D4B94787E3AE78437F34ECA10FB3 2026-07-14 Cambridge Cambridge University Press 978-1-139-05351-8
German surgeon Hans von Gersdorff publishes his Feldbuch der Wundarzney ("Field book of surgery").
Births
June 29 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist (died 1585)
October 5 – Leonardo Fioravanti, Bolognese physician (died 1588)
Pierre Belon, French naturalist (died 1564)
Jacques Pelletier du Mans, French mathematician (died 1582)
Deaths
Luca Pacioli, Florentine mathematician (b. c.1447)
References
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