1518 in science

none 1518 science 1518 The year 1518 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here. Astronomy May 26 – A Transit of Venus occurs. Exploration May 1 – Juan de Grijalva arrives at the Tabasco region of Mexico.Bernard Grun The Timetables of History 3rd New York Simon & Schuster 1991 231 0-671-74919-6 registration https://archive.org/details/timetablesofhist1991grun Martín Fernández de Enciso publishes his Suma de Geographia in Castile, a summary of world geography incorporating the latest discoveries in the New World.January 2024 most sources give 1519 as first ed publication date, not 1518 Mathematics Henricus Grammateus publishes Ayn neu Kunstlich Buech in Vienna, containing the earliest printed use of plus and minus signs for arithmetic.Miller, J. et al. "Earliest Uses of Symbols of Operation" after Cajori, F. A History of Mathematical Notations. He also publishes la Libellus de compositione regularum pro vasorum mensuratione. Deque arte ista tota theoreticae et practicae and a new musical temperament.http://www.hpschd.nu/index.html?nav/nav-4.html&t/welcome.html&http://www.hpschd.nu/tech/tmp/grammateus.html Temperaments IV: Grammateus Technical Library Carey Beebe Harpsichords Sydney 2012 2013-08-10 Adam Ries publishes de Rechnung auff der linihen, describing the use of a calculating board, a kind of two-dimensional abacus, for practical arithmetic. Medicine July – dancing plague, a case of dancing mania, breaks out in Strasbourg.http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/08/01/dancing-death-mystery.html 'Dancing Plague' and Other Odd Afflictions Explained Jennifer Viegas 2008-08-01 Discovery News Discovery Communications 2008-08-08 https://web.archive.org/web/20080807123235/http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/08/01/dancing-death-mystery.html 2008-08-07 dead September 23 – College of Physicians founded in London.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/197 registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 197–204 Jacopo Berengario da Carpi publishes Tractatus de Fractura Calve sive Cranii in Bologna, the first monograph on neurosurgery.Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 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".León Esteban Mateo Ramón López Martín Buenaventura Delgado Criado Historia de la educación en España y América La Educación en la España moderna (siglos XVI-XVIII). Volume 2 Ediciones Morata Madrid 1993 https://books.google.com/books?id=hmwVMOAF2WkC&pg=PA88 84-7112-376-2 Births July 3 - Li Shizhen, Chinese physician, pharmacologist and mineralogist (died 1593) References Category:1518 Category:16th century in science Category:1510s in science