1518 in science

The year 1518 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

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Astronomy

• May 26 – A Transit of Venus occurs.

Exploration

• May 1 – Juan de Grijalva arrives at the Tabasco region of Mexico.^[1]
• Martín Fernández de Enciso publishes his Suma de Geographia in Castile, a summary of world geography incorporating the latest discoveries in the New World.^{[dubious ]}

Mathematics

• Henricus Grammateus publishes Ayn neu Kunstlich Buech in Vienna, containing the earliest printed use of plus and minus signs for arithmetic.^[2] He also publishes Libellus de compositione regularum pro vasorum mensuratione. Deque arte ista tota theoreticae et practicae and a new musical temperament.^[3]
• Adam Ries publishes Rechnung auff der linihen, describing the use of a calculating board, a kind of two-dimensional abacus, for practical arithmetic.^[1]

Medicine

• July – dancing plague, a case of dancing mania, breaks out in Strasbourg.^[4]
• September 23 – College of Physicians founded in London.^[5]
• Jacopo Berengario da Carpi publishes Tractatus de Fractura Calve sive Cranii in Bologna, the first monograph on neurosurgery.^[6]
• 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".^[7]

Births

• July 3 - Li Shizhen, Chinese physician, pharmacologist and mineralogist (died 1593)

Deaths

References

1. Grun, Bernard (1991). The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 231. ISBN 0-671-74919-6.
2. Miller, J. et al. "Earliest Uses of Symbols of Operation" after Cajori, F. A History of Mathematical Notations.
3. "Temperaments IV: Grammateus". Technical Library. Sydney: Carey Beebe Harpsichords. 2012. Retrieved 2013-08-10.
4. Viegas, Jennifer (2008-08-01). . Discovery News. Discovery Communications. Archived from the original on 2008-08-07. Retrieved 2008-08-08.
5. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 197–204. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
6. Dictionary of Scientific Biography.
7. León Esteban Mateo; Ramón López Martín (1993). Buenaventura Delgado Criado (ed.). La Educación en la España moderna (siglos XVI-XVIII). Volume 2. Historia de la educación en España y América. Madrid: Ediciones Morata. ISBN 84-7112-376-2.