1515 in science
The year 1515 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
Astronomy
- A year in which Earth's so-called "second moon" Cruithne 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.
Zoology
- May 15 – An Indian rhinoceros arrives in Lisbon, the first to be seen in Europe since Roman times.
Births
- February 18 – Valerius Cordus, German physician and botanist
- Cristóbal Acosta, Portuguese physician and natural historian
- Giorgio Biandrata, Italian court physician
- Petrus Ramus, French logician
- Johann Weyer, Dutch] physician and occultist approx. date – Leonard Digges, English mathematician and surveyor
Deaths
- Alonso de Ojeda, Spanish navigator
- Andreas Stoberl, Austrian astronomer, mathematician and theologian