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1568 In Science
{{Science year nav, 1568 The year 1568 in science and technology involved some significant events. Botany * Orto Botanico di Bologna botanical garden is created under the direction of Ulisse Aldrovandi. Medicine * ''Ane Breve Descriptioun of the Pest'' by Gilbert Skene, the first Scottish medical book, is published. Births * October 2 – Marin Getaldić, Ragusan mathematician (died 1626) * ''date unknown'' – Nikolaus Ager, French botanist (died 1634) Deaths * July 13 – William Turner, English naturalist (born c. 1508) * Garcia de Orta, Portuguese physician (born c. 1501 Year 1501 ( MDI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June * January 17 – Cesare Borgia returns triumphantly to Rome, from Romagna. * March 25 & ...) 16th century in science 1560s in science ... [...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] |
1634 In Science
The year 1634 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy * Johannes Kepler's fictional account of the view from the Moon ''Somnium'' (written 1608) is published posthumously by his son. Botany * Thomas Johnson begins publishing ''Mercurius Botanicus'', including a list of indigenous British plants. Mathematics * Gilles de Roberval shows that the area under a cycloid is three times the area of its generating circle. Medicine * Louise Bourgeois Boursier publishes her ''Collection of Secrets'' on obstetrics in Paris, including techniques such as podalic version. Zoology * Publication of ''Insectorum sive Minimorum Animalium Theatrum'' in London, compiled posthumously from the work of Edward Wotton, Conrad Gesner and Thomas Penny by Thomas Muffet and prepared for publication by Théodore de Mayerne. Institutions * The ''Académie Française'' is formed by Cardinal Richelieu (it will be formally established in 1635). Births Deaths * February 15 †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1568 In Science
{{Science year nav, 1568 The year 1568 in science and technology involved some significant events. Botany * Orto Botanico di Bologna botanical garden is created under the direction of Ulisse Aldrovandi. Medicine * ''Ane Breve Descriptioun of the Pest'' by Gilbert Skene, the first Scottish medical book, is published. Births * October 2 – Marin Getaldić, Ragusan mathematician (died 1626) * ''date unknown'' – Nikolaus Ager, French botanist (died 1634) Deaths * July 13 – William Turner, English naturalist (born c. 1508) * Garcia de Orta, Portuguese physician (born c. 1501 Year 1501 ( MDI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June * January 17 – Cesare Borgia returns triumphantly to Rome, from Romagna. * March 25 & ...) 16th century in science 1560s in science ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1501 In Science
The year 1501 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below. Astronomy * Nilakantha Somayaji completes his astronomical treatise ''Tantrasamgraha''. * Amerigo Vespucci maps the two stars Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri, as well as the stars of the constellation Crux, which are below the horizon in Europe. Exploration * March 25 – Portuguese navigator João da Nova probably discovers Ascension Island. * November 1 ( All Saints) – Amerigo Vespucci discovers and names BaÃa de Todos os Santos in Brazil. * Gaspar Corte-Real makes the first known landing in North America by a Western European explorer this millennium. * Rodrigo de Bastidas becomes the first European to explore the Isthmus of Panama. Medicine * Continuing until 1587, a pandemic outbreak of fever, headache, sweating and black tongue spreads through Europe. Initially called ''morbus Hungaricus'' (the Hungarian disease), it will later be regarded as an outbreak of typhus. Births * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Physician
A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments. Physicians may focus their practice on certain disease categories, types of patients, and methods of treatment—known as specialities—or they may assume responsibility for the provision of continuing and comprehensive medical care to individuals, families, and communities—known as general practice. Medical practice properly requires both a detailed knowledge of the academic disciplines, such as anatomy and physiology, underlying diseases and their treatment—the ''science'' of medicine—and also a decent competence in its applied practice—the art or ''craft'' of medicine. Both the role of the physician and the meaning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira. It features the westernmost point in continental Europe, and its Iberian portion is bordered to the west and south by the Atlantic Ocean and to the north and east by Spain, the sole country to have a land border with Portugal. Its two archipelagos form two autonomous regions with their own regional governments. Lisbon is the capital and largest city by population. Portugal is the oldest continuously existing nation state on the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times. It was inhabited by pre-Celtic and Celtic peoples who had contact with Phoenicians and Ancient Greek traders, it was ruled by the Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garcia De Orta
Garcia de Orta (or Garcia d'Orta) (1501 – 1568) was a Sephardic Jewish physician, herbalist and naturalist of the Portuguese Renaissance, who worked primarily in the former Portuguese capital of Goa and the Bombay territory (Chaul, Bassein & Damaon) of Portuguese India. A pioneer of tropical medicine, pharmacognosy & ethnobotany, Garcia used an experimental approach to the identification and the use of herbal medicines, rather than the older approach of received knowledge (oral tradition). His most famous work is ''Colóquios dos simples e drogas da India'', a book on simples (herbs used individually and not mixed with others) and drugs. Published in 1563, it is the earliest treatise on the medicinal and economic plants of India. Carolus Clusius translated it into Latin, which was widely used as a standard reference text on medicinal plants. Although Garcia de Orta did not, apparently, suffer the Goa Inquisition, his sister Catarina was burnt at the stake in 1569 for being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1508 In Science
{{Science year nav, 1508 The year 1508 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here. Events * ''approx. date'' – Leonardo da Vinci completes writing the Codex Leicester. Births * December 9 – Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (died 1555). * ''approx. date'' – William Turner, English naturalist (died 1568 Year 1568 ( MDLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June * January 6– 13 – In the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom, the delegates of Unio Tr ...). Deaths 16th century in science 1500s in science ... [...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 in England, English language, a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language, and share a common history and culture. The English identity is of History of Anglo-Saxon England, 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 Ancient Rome, Romans, and the Romano-British culture, 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Turner (naturalist)
William Turner (1509/10 – 13 July 1568) was an English divine and reformer, a physician and a natural historian. He has been called "The father of English botany."Samson, Alexander. ''Locus Amoenus: Gardens and Horticulture in the Renaissance'', 2012 :4 He studied medicine in Italy, and was a friend of the great Swiss naturalist, Conrad Gessner. He was an early herbalist and ornithologist, and it is in these fields that the most interest lies today. He is known as being one of the first "parson-naturalists" in England. He first published '' Libellus de Re herbaria'' in Latin in 1538, and later translated it into English because he believed herbalists were not sharing their knowledge. Turner's works were condemned under Henry VIII and under Mary Tudor. Biography Early years Turner was born in Morpeth, Northumberland, in or around 1508. His father was probably a tanner of the same name. He studied at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge University, from 1526 to 1533, where he recei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botanist
Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek word (''botanē'') meaning "pasture", " herbs" "grass", or " fodder"; is in turn derived from (), "to feed" or "to graze". Traditionally, botany has also included the study of fungi and algae by mycologists and phycologists respectively, with the study of these three groups of organisms remaining within the sphere of interest of the International Botanical Congress. Nowadays, botanists (in the strict sense) study approximately 410,000 species of land plants of which some 391,000 species are vascular plants (including approximately 369,000 species of flowering plants), and approximately 20,000 are bryophytes. Botany originated in prehistory as herbalism with the efforts of early humans to identify – and later cultivate – edible, med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
