1525 in science
The year 1525 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
Events
- Albrecht Dürer's book on geometry and perspective, The Painter's Manual is published at Nuremberg. It is the first book for adults to be published on mathematics in German.
- First publication of Galen's Of the method of curing diseases in the original Greek, by the Aldine Press in Venice.
- First publication of the complete collected Hippocratic Corpus, translated into Latin, in Rome.
- Christoff Rudolff's Behend und hübsch Rechnung durch die kunstreichen regeln Algebre so gemeincklich die Coss genent werden introduces the modern radical symbol, √ .
- Publication of Richard Banckes' Herball, the first true herbal printed in Britain.
- First woodcut map of France, produced by Oronce Finé.approx. date – Paracelsus discovers the analgesic properties of diethyl ether.
Births
- September 25 – Steven Borough, English explorer
- December 1 – Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer approx. date – Hans Staden, German adventurer
- Tomás de Mercado, Spanish economist and theologian