Editing 1525 in science

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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 language|Greek]], by the [[Aldine Press]] in [[Venice]].
* First publication of the collected works of [[Hippocrates]] translated into [[Latin]], in Rome.
* [[Christoff Rudolff]]'s {{lang|de|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 (symbol)|vinculum]] above the [[radicand]]).
* Publication of Richard Banckes' ''Herball'', the first true [[herbal]] printed in Britain.<ref>{{cite book|authorlink=Agnes Arber|last=Arber|first=Agnes|year=1986|title=Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: a Chapter in the History of Botany 1470–1670|publisher=Cambridge University Press|edition=3rd|isbn=978-0521338790|page=41}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=John Gerard|url=http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/aconite/gerard.html|accessdate=2012-03-29}}</ref>
* First [[woodcut]] map of France, produced by [[Oronce Finé]].
* ''approx. date'' – [[Paracelsus]] discovers the [[analgesic]] properties of [[diethyl ether]].<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1097/00000542-196511000-00016|last=Gravenstein|first=J. S.|title=Paracelsus and his contributions to anesthesia|journal=Anesthesiology|volume=26|issue=6|pages=805–11|year=1965|pmid=5320896|doi-access=free}}</ref>

==Births==
* September 25 – [[Steven Borough]], English [[explorer]] (died [[1584 in science|1584]])
* December 1 – [[Tadeáš Hájek]], [[Czechs|Czech]] [[physician]] and [[astronomer]] (died [[1600 in science|1600]])
* ''approx. date'' – [[Hans Staden]], German adventurer (d. c.[[1579 in science|1579]])
* [[Tomás de Mercado]], Spanish economist and theologian (died [[1575 in science|1575]])

==Deaths==
* ''approx. date'' – [[Henricus Grammateus]], [[Swiss people|Swiss]] [[mathematician]] (born c. 1492)

==References==
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