1518 in science
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The year 1518 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
Astronomy
Exploration
- May 1 – Juan de Grijalva arrives at the Tabasco region of Mexico.{{cite book|first=Bernard|last=Grun|title=The Timetables of History|edition=3rd|location=New York|publisher=Simon & Schuster|year=1991|page=[https://archive.org/details/timetablesofhist1991grun/page/231 231]|isbn=0-671-74919-6|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/timetablesofhist1991grun}}
- Martín Fernández de Enciso publishes his Suma de Geographia in Castile, a summary of world geography incorporating the latest discoveries in the New World.{{dubious|date=January 2024|reason=most sources give 1519 as first ed publication date, not 1518}}
Mathematics
- Henricus Grammateus publishes Ayn neu Kunstlich Buech in Vienna, containing the earliest printed use of plus and minus signs for arithmetic.[http://members.aol.com/jeff570/operation.html Miller, J. et al. "Earliest Uses of Symbols of Operation"] after Cajori, F. A History of Mathematical Notations. He also publishes {{lang|la|Libellus de compositione regularum pro vasorum mensuratione. Deque arte ista tota theoreticae et practicae}} and a new musical temperament.{{cite web|url=http://www.hpschd.nu/index.html?nav/nav-4.html&t/welcome.html&http://www.hpschd.nu/tech/tmp/grammateus.html|title=Temperaments IV: Grammateus|work=Technical Library|publisher=Carey Beebe Harpsichords|location=Sydney|year=2012|access-date=2013-08-10}}
- Adam Ries publishes {{lang|de|Rechnung auff der linihen}}, describing the use of a calculating board, a kind of two-dimensional abacus, for practical arithmetic.
Medicine
- July – dancing plague, a case of dancing mania, breaks out in Strasbourg.{{cite web|url=http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/08/01/dancing-death-mystery.html |title='Dancing Plague' and Other Odd Afflictions Explained |first=Jennifer |last=Viegas |date=2008-08-01 |work=Discovery News |publisher=Discovery Communications |access-date=2008-08-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080807123235/http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/08/01/dancing-death-mystery.html |archive-date=2008-08-07 |url-status=dead }}
- September 23 – College of Physicians founded in London.{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/197|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/197 197–204]}}
- Jacopo Berengario da Carpi publishes Tractatus de Fractura Calve sive Cranii in Bologna, the first monograph on neurosurgery.Dictionary of Scientific Biography.
- Publication of Antonio de Nebrija's Lexicon artis medicamentariae, "which contains the correspondence in vulgar language of the Greek and Latin names of the plants".{{cite book |author1=León Esteban Mateo |author2=Ramón López Martín |editor=Buenaventura Delgado Criado |series=Historia de la educación en España y América |title=La Educación en la España moderna (siglos XVI-XVIII). Volume 2 |publisher=Ediciones Morata |location=Madrid |date=1993 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hmwVMOAF2WkC&pg=PA88 |isbn=84-7112-376-2}}
Births
- July 3 - Li Shizhen, Chinese physician, pharmacologist and mineralogist (died 1593)
Deaths
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