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1525 science
1525
The year 1525 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
Events
Albrecht Dürer's book on geometry and perspective, The Painter's Manual (more literally, the Instructions on Measurement) is published at Nuremberg. It is the first book for adults to be published on mathematics in German.
First publication of Galen's Of the method of curing diseases in the original Greek, by the Aldine Press in Venice.
First publication of the complete collected Hippocratic Corpus, translated into Latin, in Rome.
Christoff Rudolff's de Behend und hübsch Rechnung durch die kunstreichen regeln Algebre so gemeincklich die Coss genent werden introduces the modern radical symbol (for square root), √ (without the vinculum above the radicand).
Publication of Richard Banckes' Herball, the first true herbal printed in Britain.Agnes Arber Arber Agnes 1986 Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: a Chapter in the History of Botany 1470–1670 Cambridge University Press 3rd 978-0521338790 41John Gerard http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/aconite/gerard.html 2012-03-29
First woodcut map of France, produced by Oronce Finé.
approx. date – Paracelsus discovers the analgesic properties of diethyl ether.10.1097/00000542-196511000-00016 Gravenstein J. S. Paracelsus and his contributions to anesthesia Anesthesiology 26 6 805–11 1965 5320896 free
Births
September 25 – Steven Borough, English explorer (died 1584)
December 1 – Tadeáš Hájek, Czech medical doctor and astronomer (died 1600)
approx. date – Hans Staden, German adventurer (d. c.1579)
Tomás de Mercado, Spanish economist and theologian (died 1575)
Deaths
approx. date – Henricus Grammateus, Swiss mathematician (born c. 1492)
References
Category:16th century in science
Category:1520s in science