1505 in science

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 ("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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