1518 in science

The year 1518 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

Astronomy

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.

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]

July – Dancing Plague, a case of dancing mania, breaks out in Strasbourg.^[4]
September 23 – 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]

July 3 - Li Shizhen, Chinese physician, pharmacologist and mineralogist (died 1593)

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 (2008-08-01). "'Dancing Plague' and Other Odd Afflictions Explained". Discovery News. Discovery Communications. Archived from the original on 2008-08-07. 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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