History of Science
- Isis, the journal of the history of science, is founded in Ghent by George Sarton.
- Georgius Agricola's De re metallica (1556) is first published in an English translation, made by Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover, in London.
- Voynich manuscript discovered.
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