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1505 science
1505
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.Pedretti Carlo A Chronology of Leonardo Da Vinci's Architectural Studies after 1500 Geneva E. Droz 1962 37
Exploration
Portuguese reach the Comoros archipelago.
Bermuda is discovered by Spanish explorer Juan de Bermúdez.Morison Samuel The European Discovery of America: The Southern Voyages, 1492–1616 https://archive.org/details/europeandiscover00mori registration Oxford University Press 1974
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.Bernard Grun The Timetables of History 3rd New York Simon & Schuster 1991 0-671-74919-6 225 registration https://archive.org/details/timetablesofhist1991grun
Mineralogy
Ulrich Rülein von Calw publishes de 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)
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