1507 in science

Cartography

• April 25 – Martin Waldseemüller publishes Cosmographiae Introductio and accompanying wall map, the first to show and name the Americas as a separate continent.
• Johannes Ruysch's map of the world is first published in editions of Ptolemy's Geography produced in Rome.

  Births

• September 27 – Guillaume Rondelet, French physician

  Deaths

• July 29 – Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer