1515 in science

The year 1515 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

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Astronomy

• A year in which Earth's so-called "second moon" Cruithne (discovered in 1986) makes a closest approach to earth. The two are in 1:1 orbital resonance. This next happens about 1903; the following occasion will be in July 2292.

Cartography

• First Johannes Schöner globe produced.[1]

Dürer's Rhinoceros (1515)

Zoology

• May 15 – An Indian rhinoceros arrives in Lisbon, the first to be seen in Europe since Roman times.[2]

Births

• February 18 – Valerius Cordus, German physician and botanist (died 1544)
• Cristóbal Acosta, Portuguese physician and natural historian (died 1594)
• Giorgio Biandrata, Italian court physician (died 1588)
• Petrus Ramus, French logician (k. 1572)
• Johann Weyer, Dutch physician and occultist (died 1588)
• approx. date – Leonard Digges, English mathematician and surveyor (d. c.1559)

Deaths

• Alonso de Ojeda, Spanish navigator (born c.1466)
• Andreas Stoberl, Austrian astronomer, mathematician and theologian (born 1465)

References

1. Van Duzer, Chet (2010). Johann Schöner’s Globe of 1515: Transcription and Study. Philadelphia, PA: American Philosophical Society. ISBN 978-1-60618-005-1.
2. Bedini, Silvano A. (1997). The Pope's Elephant. Manchester: Carcanet Press. ISBN 1-85754-277-0.