1505 in science
# 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 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)
