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1547 In Science
The year 1547 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here. Events * John Dee visits the Low Countries to study navigation with Gemma Frisius. * The first chair of mathematics at the Heidelberg University Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Heidelberg is given to the physician Jacob Curio. * Charles de Bovelles publishes ''La Geometrie practique'' in Paris, with assistance from Oronce Finé. * Girolamo Gabuccini publishes the first separate treatise on parasitic worms. Births * February 18 – Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī, Lebanon, Lebanese-born philosopher and astronomer (died 1621 in science, 1621) * March 1 – Rudolph Goclenius, German people, German philosopher and polymath (died 1628 in science, 1628) * November 26 – Nicolaus Taurellus, German philosopher and scientist (died 1606 in science, 1606) Deaths * January 16 – Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (born 1477) * December 2 – Hern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science
Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for scientific reasoning is tens of thousands of years old. The earliest written records in the history of science come from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3000 to 1200 BCE. Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, whereby formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the physical world based on natural causes. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of Greek conceptions of the world deteriorated in Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages, but was preserved in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age and later by the efforts of Byzantine Greek scholars who brought Greek ... [...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, natural satellite, moons, comets and galaxy, galaxies – in either observational astronomy, observational (by analyzing the data) or theoretical astronomy. Examples of topics or fields astronomers study include planetary science, Sun, solar astronomy, the Star formation, origin or stellar evolution, evolution of stars, or the galaxy formation and evolution, 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 astronomy, observational and theoretical astronomy, theoretical. Observational astronomers make direct observations of Astronomical object, celestial objects and analyze the data. In contrast, theoretical astronomers create and investigate C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1547 In Science
The year 1547 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here. Events * John Dee visits the Low Countries to study navigation with Gemma Frisius. * The first chair of mathematics at the Heidelberg University Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Heidelberg is given to the physician Jacob Curio. * Charles de Bovelles publishes ''La Geometrie practique'' in Paris, with assistance from Oronce Finé. * Girolamo Gabuccini publishes the first separate treatise on parasitic worms. Births * February 18 – Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī, Lebanon, Lebanese-born philosopher and astronomer (died 1621 in science, 1621) * March 1 – Rudolph Goclenius, German people, German philosopher and polymath (died 1628 in science, 1628) * November 26 – Nicolaus Taurellus, German philosopher and scientist (died 1606 in science, 1606) Deaths * January 16 – Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (born 1477) * December 2 – Hern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish People
Spaniards, or Spanish people, are a Romance ethnic group native to Spain. Within Spain, there are a number of national and regional ethnic identities that reflect the country's complex history, including a number of different languages, both indigenous and local linguistic descendants of the Roman-imposed Latin language, of which Spanish is the largest and the only one that is official throughout the whole country. Commonly spoken regional languages include, most notably, the sole surviving indigenous language of Iberia, Basque, as well as other Latin-descended Romance languages like Spanish itself, Catalan and Galician. Many populations outside Spain have ancestors who emigrated from Spain and share elements of a Hispanic culture. The most notable of these comprise Hispanic America in the Western Hemisphere. The Roman Republic conquered Iberia during the 2nd and 1st centuries BC. Hispania, the name given to Iberia by the Romans as a province of their Empire, became highly acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hernán Cortés
Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca (; ; 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish ''conquistador'' who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish explorers and conquistadors who began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. Born in Medellín, Spain, to a family of lesser nobility, Cortés chose to pursue adventure and riches in the New World. He went to Hispaniola and later to Cuba, where he received an '' encomienda'' (the right to the labor of certain subjects). For a short time, he served as '' alcalde'' (magistrate) of the second Spanish town founded on the island. In 1519, he was elected captain of the third expedition to the mainland, which he partly funded. His enmity with the Governor of Cuba, Diego Velázquez de Cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cartographer
Cartography (; from grc, χάρτης , "papyrus, sheet of paper, map"; and , "write") is the study and practice of making and using maps. Combining science, aesthetics and technique, cartography builds on the premise that reality (or an imagined reality) can be modeled in ways that communicate spatial information effectively. The fundamental objectives of traditional cartography are to: * Set the map's agenda and select traits of the object to be mapped. This is the concern of map editing. Traits may be physical, such as roads or land masses, or may be abstract, such as Toponomy, toponyms or political boundaries. * Represent the terrain of the mapped object on flat media. This is the concern of map projections. * Eliminate characteristics of the mapped object that are not relevant to the map's purpose. This is the concern of Cartographic generalization, generalization. * Reduce the complexity of the characteristics that will be mapped. This is also the concern of generaliza ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Schöner
Johannes Schöner (16 January 1477, in Karlstadt am Main – 16 January 1547, in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg) (aka, Johann Schönner, Johann Schoener, Jean Schönner, Joan Schoenerus) was a renowned and respected German polymath. It is best to refer to him using the usual 16th-century Latin term "mathematicus", as the areas of study to which he devoted his life were very different from those now considered to be the domain of the mathematician. He was a priest, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, cosmographer, cartographer, mathematician, globe and scientific instrument maker and editor and publisher of scientific tests. In his own time he enjoyed a Europe-wide reputation as an innovative and influential globe maker and cosmographer and as one of the continent's leading and most authoritative astrologers.Norbert Holst, ''Mundus, Mirabilia, Mentalität: Weltbild und Quellen des Kartographen Johannes Schöner: eine Spurensuche,'' Frankfurt/Oder, Scripvaz, 1999. ; John W. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1606 In Science
The year 1606 in science and technology involved some significant events. Cryptography * The cryptographic text ''Steganographia'', written by Johannes Trithemius c.1499/1500, is published in Frankfurt. Exploration * February 26 ** Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon makes the first confirmed sighting of Australia by a European. ** Pedro Fernandes de Queirós discovers the Pitcairn Islands. * March – The Dutch ship ''Duyfken'', under Captain Willem Janszoon, explores the western coast of Cape York Peninsula. * May – Pedro Fernandes de Queirós discovers the islands of Vanuatu; believing them to be Australia, he names them '. * October – Luís Vaz de Torres is the first European to sail through the Torres Strait. Mathematics * Giovanni Antonio Magini devises trigonometric tables of high accuracy. Physics * ''Approx. date'' – Galileo invents a thermometer based on the expansion of gas. Technology * The first recorded instance of a bayonet published in the Chinese mili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolaus Taurellus
Nicolaus Taurellus (Latin, from german: Nikolaus Öchslinin 19th century translated to French as ''Nicolas Tourot''. No Google Books hit befor1859/ref>) (November 26, 1547September 28, 1606) was a German philosopher and medical academic. Life He was born in the County of Mömpelgard, then part of the Duchy of Württemberg. With support from Duke Georg I. of Württemberg-Mömpelgard, he read theology at University of Tübingen and medicine at the University of Basel, where he lectured on physical science. He subsequently became professor of medicine at the University of Altdorf. There he died in 1606 from the plague, despite treatment by Ernst Soner. He attacked the dominant Aristotelianism of the time, and endeavoured to construct a philosophy which should harmonize faith and knowledge, and bridge over the chasm made by the first Renaissance writers who followed Pomponazzi. Scholasticism he condemned on account of its unquestioning submission to Aristotle. Taurellus maintaine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1628 In Science
The year 1628 in science and technology involved some significant events. Medicine and physiology * William Harvey publishes his findings about blood circulation in ''Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus'' (published in Frankfurt). Births * March 10 – Marcello Malpighi, Italian physiologist (died 1694) * April 23 – Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (died 1704) * Constantijn Huygens, Dutch statesman and telescope maker (died 1697) Deaths * June 8 – Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher and polymath (born 1547) * Yi Su-gwang, Korean scholar-bureaucrat (born 1563 Year 1563 ( MDLXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June * February 1 – Sarsa Dengel succeeds his father Menas as Emperor of Ethiopia. * Janu ...) References {{Reflist 17th century in science 1620s in science ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polymath
A polymath ( el, πολυμαθής, , "having learned much"; la, homo universalis, "universal human") is an individual whose knowledge spans a substantial number of subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems. In Western Europe, the first work to use the term polymathy in its title () was published in 1603 by Johann von Wowern, a Hamburg philosopher. Von Wowern defined polymathy as "knowledge of various matters, drawn from all kinds of studies ... ranging freely through all the fields of the disciplines, as far as the human mind, with unwearied industry, is able to pursue them". Von Wowern lists erudition, literature, philology, philomathy, and polyhistory as synonyms. The earliest recorded use of the term in the English language is from 1624, in the second edition of ''The Anatomy of Melancholy'' by Robert Burton; the form ''polymathist'' is slightly older, first appearing in the ''Diatribae upon the first part of the late History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German People
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