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1518 in science
The year
1518 in
science
and
technology
included many events, some of which are listed here.
Astronomy
May 26 â A
Transit
of
Venus
occurs.
Exploration
May 1 âÂÂ
Juan de Grijalva
arrives at the
Tabasco
region of
Mexico
.
MartÃÂn Fernández de Enciso
publishes his
Suma de Geographia
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. He also publishes
' and a new
musical temperament
.
Adam Ries
publishes ', describing the use of a calculating board, a kind of two-dimensional
abacus
, for practical arithmetic.
Medicine
July âÂÂ
dancing plague
, a case of
dancing mania
, breaks out in
Strasbourg
.
September 23 âÂÂ
College of Physicians
founded in
London
.
Jacopo Berengario da Carpi
publishes
Tractatus de Fractura Calve sive Cranii
in
Bologna
, the first
monograph
on
neurosurgery
.
Publication of
Antonio de Nebrija
's
Lexicon artis medicamentariae
, "which contains the correspondence in vulgar language of the Greek and Latin names of the plants".
Births
July 3 -
Li Shizhen
,
Chinese
physician,
pharmacologist
and mineralogist (died
1593
)
References