title: 1505 in science
text: # 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)
  