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.[1]
- Martin Fernandez de Encisco publishes his Suma de Geographie in Castile, a summary of world geography incorporating the latest discoveries in the New World.
Mathematics
- Henricus Grammateus publishes Ayn neu Kunstlich Buech in Vienna, containing the earliest printed use of plus and minus signs for arithmetic.[2] He also publishes Libellus de compositione regularum pro vasorum mensuratione. Deque arte ista tota theoreticae et practicae and a new musical temperament.[3]
- Adam Ries publishes Rechnung auff der linihen, describing the use of a calculating board, a kind of two-dimensional abacus, for practical arithmetic.[1]
Medicine
- July – Dancing Plague, a case of dancing mania, breaks out in Strasbourg.[4]
- College of Physicians founded in London.[5]
- Jacopo Berengario da Carpi publishes Tractatus de Fractura Calve sive Cranii in Bologna, the first monograph on neurosurgery.[6]
Births
- July 3 - Li Shizhen, Chinese physician, pharmacologist and mineralogist (died 1593)
References
- 1 2 Grun, Bernard (1991). The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 231. ISBN 0-671-74919-6.
- ↑ Miller, J. et al. "Earliest Uses of Symbols of Operation" after Cajori, F. A History of Mathematical Notations.
- ↑ "Temperaments IV: Grammateus". Technical Library. Sydney: Carey Beebe Harpsichords. 2012. Retrieved 2013-08-10.
- ↑ Viegas, Jennifer (1 August 2008). "'Dancing Plague' and Other Odd Afflictions Explained". Discovery News. Discovery Communications. Archived from the original on 7 August 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-08.
- ↑ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 197–204. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ↑ Dictionary of Scientific Biography.
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