1505 in science
The year 1505 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed below.
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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)
gollark: You can probably try it part time.
gollark: Yes, true, governments will complain.
gollark: Probably with multiple people for the authentic tribal hunter gathering experience
gollark: > Look m8 all I want to be is happyIf you think you will be better off without technology, you can go return to monke yourself and whatnot. Enjoy.
gollark: I think this is broadly missing the point. You're bringing up one apparently bad result of technological progress and ignoring all the really good but less obvious (because they faded into the background) things.
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.
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