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The year 1540 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.
Year 1541 (MDXLI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
Basil Valentine is the Anglicised version of the name Basilius Valentinus, ostensibly a 15th-century alchemist, possibly Canon of the Benedictine Priory of Saint Peter in Erfurt, Germany but more likely a pseudonym used by one or several 16th-century German authors.
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in the 15th century.
This article presents lists of literary events and publications in the 16th century.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1540.
The year 1759 in science and technology involved several significant events.
Vannoccio Biringuccio, sometimes spelled Vannocio Biringuccio, was an Italian metallurgist. He is best known for his manual on metalworking, De la pirotechnia, published posthumously in 1540.
Gesta Romanorum, meaning Deeds of the Romans, is a Latin collection of anecdotes and tales that was probably compiled about the end of the 13th century or the beginning of the 14th. It still possesses a two-fold literary interest, first as one of the most popular books of the time, and secondly as the source, directly or indirectly, of later literature, in Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, Giovanni Boccaccio, Thomas Hoccleve, William Shakespeare, and others.
Didot is the name of a family of French printers, punch-cutters and publishers. Through its achievements and advancements in printing, publishing and typography, the family has lent its name to typographic measurements developed by François-Ambroise Didot and the Didot typeface developed by Firmin Didot. The Didot company of France was ultimately incorporated into the modern CPI printing group.
Richard Eden was an English alchemist and translator. His translations of the geographical works of other writers helped to foster enthusiasm for overseas exploration in Tudor England.
Jacques Besson (1540?–1573) was a French Protestant inventor, mathematician, and philosopher, chiefly remembered for his popular treatise on machines Theatrum Instrumentorum (1571–1572), which saw many reprints in different languages.
The decade of the 1530s in music involved some significant events, publications, compositions, births, and deaths.
Events from the 1540s in England.
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Thomas Raynalde was an English physician, known as the translator or editor of Eucharius Rösslin's De Partu Hominis. The translation was published as The Byrth of Mankynde, otherwyse named The Womans Booke in 1545 and was highly successful, running to eleven or thirteen editions and remaining in use until 1654. A Compendious Declaration of the Excellent Vertues of a Certain Lateli Inventid Oile, published in 1551, is believed to have been written by the same person.
De la Pirotechnia is considered to be one of the first printed books on metallurgy to have been published in Europe. It was written in Italian and first published in Venice in 1540. The author was Vannoccio Biringuccio, a citizen of Siena, Italy, who died before it was published. Further editions were published in 1550, 1558, 1559, and 1678, with a (sloppy) French translation by Jacques Vincent being published in 1556, 1572, and 1627. Parts were translated into Latin, English and Spanish at various times in the 1550s and 1560s, generally without acknowledgement. The second book on metallurgy, De re metallica, was written in Latin by Georgius Agricola, and published in 1556.
The year 1536 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.
Martha Gnudi, née Teach was an American medical historian and translator.
Pierre Tolet or Petrus Toletus was a French physician who, together with Jean Canappe contributed to the transmission of medical and surgical knowledge in French.
Bernardo Perez de Vargas was a Spanish writer on several topics. He translated and wrote works in astronomy, alchemy and on mining. His most important work, De re metalica (1569), was on mining and metallurgy and drew extensively from previously published works in other language. He titled himself as "magnífico caballero" but very little is known about him.