1517 in science

Medicine

• A third epidemic of sweating sickness in England hits Oxford and Cambridge.
• German surgeon Hans von Gersdorff publishes his Feldbuch der Wundarzney.

  Births

• June 29 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist
• October 5 – Leonardo Fioravanti, Bolognese physician
• Pierre Belon, French naturalist
• Jacques Pelletier du Mans, French mathematician

  Deaths

• Luca Pacioli, Florentine mathematician