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1579 In Science
The year 1579 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here. Exploration * June 17 – Francis Drake, during his circumnavigation of the world, lands in what is now California, which he claims for Queen Elizabeth I of England as '' Nova Albion''. Physiology and medicine * Hieronymus Fabricius discovers the membranous folds that serve as valves in the veins. Births * January 12 ''(bapt.)'' – Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist (died 1644) * July 13 – Arthur Dee, English physician and alchemist (died 1651) Deaths * June 17 – Johannes Stadius, Flemish mathematician and astronomer (born c. 1527) * ''approx. date'' – Hans Staden, German adventurer (born c. 1525 __NOTOC__ Year 1525 (Roman numerals, MDXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June * January 21 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Con ...) References {{Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English People
The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language, a West Germanic language, and share a common history and culture. The English identity is of Anglo-Saxon origin, when they were known in Old English as the ('race or tribe of the Angles'). Their ethnonym is derived from the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples who migrated to Great Britain around the 5th century AD. The English largely descend from two main historical population groups the West Germanic tribes (the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians) who settled in southern Britain following the withdrawal of the Romans, and the partially Romanised Celtic Britons already living there.Martiniano, R., Caffell, A., Holst, M. et al. Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons. Nat Commun 7, 10326 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10326 Collectively known as the Anglo-Saxons, they founded what was to become the Kingdom of England ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1579 In Science
The year 1579 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here. Exploration * June 17 – Francis Drake, during his circumnavigation of the world, lands in what is now California, which he claims for Queen Elizabeth I of England as '' Nova Albion''. Physiology and medicine * Hieronymus Fabricius discovers the membranous folds that serve as valves in the veins. Births * January 12 ''(bapt.)'' – Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist (died 1644) * July 13 – Arthur Dee, English physician and alchemist (died 1651) Deaths * June 17 – Johannes Stadius, Flemish mathematician and astronomer (born c. 1527) * ''approx. date'' – Hans Staden, German adventurer (born c. 1525 __NOTOC__ Year 1525 (Roman numerals, MDXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June * January 21 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Con ...) References {{Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1525 In Science
The year 1525 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here. Events * Albrecht Dürer's book on geometry and perspective, ''The Painter's Manual'' (more literally, the ''Instructions on Measurement'') is published at Nuremberg. It is the first book for adults to be published on mathematics in German. * First publication of Galen's ''Of the method of curing diseases'' in the original Greek, by the Aldine Press in Venice. * First publication of the collected works of Hippocrates translated into Latin, in Rome. * Christoff Rudolff's introduces the modern radical symbol (for square root), √ (without the vinculum above the radicand). * Publication of Richard Banckes' ''Herball'', the first true herbal printed in Britain. * First woodcut map of France, produced by Oronce Finé. * ''approx. date'' – Paracelsus discovers the analgesic properties of diethyl ether. Births * September 25 – Steven Borough, English explorer (died 1584) * December ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German People
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Hans Staden
Hans Staden (c. 1525 – c. 1576) was a German soldier and explorer who voyaged to South America in the middle of the sixteenth century, where he was captured by the Tupinambá people of Brazil. He managed to survive and return safe to Europe. In his widely read '' True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil'', he claimed that the native people that held him captive practiced cannibalism. Trips to South America Staden was born in Homberg in the Landgraviate of Hesse. He had received a good education and was in moderate circumstances when desire for travel led him to enlist in 1547 on a ship that was bound for Brazil. He returned from this first trip on 8 October 1548, and, going to Seville, enlisted for a second trip as a volunteer in an expedition for Río de la Plata which sailed in March 1549. On reaching the mouth of the river, two ships sank in a storm. After vainly trying to build a barque, part of the shipwrecked crew set out overland for Asunción. The rest o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1527 In Science
The year 1527 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here. Mathematics * Petrus Apianus publishes a handbook of commercial arithmetic, ''Ein newe und wolgegründete underweisung aller Kauffmanns Rechnung in dreyen Büchern, mit schönen Regeln und fragstücken begriffen'', at Ingolstadt.Depicted in Holbein's painting ''The Ambassadors'' (1533) – Military science * Albrecht Dürer publishes a treatise on fortifications, , in Nuremberg. Births * c. May 1 – Jan Van Ostaeyen (Johannes Stadius), Flemish mathematician and astronomer (died 1579) * July 13 – John Dee, English alchemist, astrologer and mathematician (died 1609 Events January–June * January – The Basque witch trials begin. * January 15 – One of the world's first newspapers, ''Avisa Relation oder Zeitung'', begins publication in Wolfenbüttel (Holy Roman Empire). * January 3 ...) Deaths * January 21 – Juan de Grijalva, Spanish explorer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. They observe astronomical objects such as stars, planets, moons, comets and galaxies – in either observational (by analyzing the data) or theoretical astronomy. Examples of topics or fields astronomers study include planetary science, solar astronomy, the origin or evolution of stars, or the formation of galaxies. A related but distinct subject is physical cosmology, which studies the Universe as a whole. Types Astronomers usually fall under either of two main types: observational and theoretical. Observational astronomers make direct observations of celestial objects and analyze the data. In contrast, theoretical astronomers create and investigate models of things that cannot be observed. Because it takes millions to billions of years for a system of stars or a galaxy to complete a life cycle, astronomers must observe snapsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematical model, models, and mathematics#Calculus and analysis, change. History One of the earliest known mathematicians were Thales of Miletus (c. 624–c.546 BC); he has been hailed as the first true mathematician and the first known individual to whom a mathematical discovery has been attributed. He is credited with the first use of deductive reasoning applied to geometry, by deriving four corollaries to Thales' Theorem. The number of known mathematicians grew when Pythagoras of Samos (c. 582–c. 507 BC) established the Pythagoreans, Pythagorean School, whose doctrine it was that mathematics ruled the universe and whose motto was "All is number". It was the Pythagoreans who coined the term "mathematics", and with whom the study of mathemat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Stadius
Johannes Stadius or Estadius ( Dutch: ''Jan Van Ostaeyen''; French: ''Jean Stade'') (ca. 1 May 1527 – 17 June 1579), was a Flemish astronomer, astrologer, and mathematician. He was one of the important late 16th-century makers of ephemerides, which gave the positions of astronomical objects in the sky at a given time or times. Life Born ''Jan Van Ostaeyen'' in the town of Loenhout (''Loennouthesius'', meaning 'from Loenhout', is sometimes appended to his Latin surname) in the Duchy of Brabant, Stadius grew up in the ''Schaliënhuis'' on the old Dorpsstraat, which was one of the oldest houses in Loenhout (today a tavern and restaurant). Not much else is known regarding his youth besides the fact that his parents were not married to each other. After receiving his education at the Latin school of Brecht, Stadius studied mathematics, geography, and history at the Old University of Leuven, where one of his teachers was Gemma Frisius. After completing his studies, he became a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1651 In Science
The year 1651 in science and technology involved some significant events. Anatomy * Jean Pecquet publishes ''Experimenta nova anatomica'' which includes his findings on the lymphatic system. * William Harvey describes organ formation in the developing embryo in '' De Generatione''. Astronomy * William Gilbert's ''De Mundo Nostro Sublunari Philosophia Nova'' ("A New Philosophy of Our Sublunar World") is published posthumously. It theorises that the fixed stars are not all the same distance from Earth, and that the force of magnetism holds the planets in orbit around the Sun. * Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli's ''Almagestum Novum'' includes a map of the Moon giving definitive names to many features. Botany * Begonias become known in Europe (although discovered by Father Francisco Hernández in Mexico before 1577). Chemistry * German scientist Johann Glauber publishes ''Opera omnia chymica (Complete Works of Chemistry)'', a description of different techniques in c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alchemist
Alchemy (from Arabic: ''al-kīmiyā''; from Ancient Greek: χυμεία, ''khumeía'') is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practiced in China, India, the Muslim world, and Europe. In its Western form, alchemy is first attested in a number of pseudepigraphical texts written in Greco-Roman Egypt during the first few centuries AD.Principe, Lawrence M. The secrets of alchemy'. University of Chicago Press, 2012, pp. 9–14. Alchemists attempted to purify, mature, and perfect certain materials. Common aims were chrysopoeia, the transmutation of "base metals" (e.g., lead) into "noble metals" (particularly gold); the creation of an elixir of immortality; and the creation of panaceas able to cure any disease. The perfection of the human body and soul was thought to result from the alchemical ''magnum opus'' ("Great Work"). The concept of creating the philosophers' stone was variously connected with all of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
