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 (more literally, the Instructions on Measurement) 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 collected works of
Hippocrates 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 (for
square root), √ (without the
vinculum above the
radicand).
Publication of Richard Banckes' Herball, the first true
herbal printed in Britain.[1][2]
^Arber, Agnes (1986). Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: a Chapter in the History of Botany 1470–1670 (3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 41.
ISBN978-0521338790.