1505 in science

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 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
• Giovan Battista Bellaso, Italian cryptologist

  Deaths

• Gabriele Zerbi, Veronese gerontologist