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Piccolomini, Arcangelo
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Italy, 1525; d Rome, Italy, 19 October 1586) medicine anatomy, pnysiology Little...general protomedicus for the Papal States In 1586 Piccolomini published his course of anatomical...Anatamicae praeiattones was not reprinted after 1586, but it left a number of discernible marks...
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Lonicerus (Lonitzer), Adam
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Germany, 10 October 1528; d. Frankfurt, Germany, 29 May 1586) botany . Lonicerus was the son of Johann Lonitzer, a philologist...sslin, Theod. Dorsten u, Adam Lonicer (1526 – 1586), ” in Zentralbtatt fur Biblioihekswesen, 19 (1902...
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Zutphen, battle of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Zutphen, battle of, 1586. During the Netherlands War of Independence, Elizabeth I sent troops under the earl of Leicester to aid the rebels. In 1586 they laid siege to Zutphen, defended by a Spanish garrison under Prince...
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Aleotti, Giovanni Battista
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...designed several churches in Ferrara, including Santa Barbara (1586–8), and Santa Maria del Quartiere (1604–...and the Palazzo del Paradiso (which housed the University from 1586 to 1962). His most imposing work of military architecture was...
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Clitherow, St Margaret
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Clitherow, St Margaret ( c. 1556–1586), the ‘martyr of York’. She became a RC when 18. In 1586 she was arrested and charged with harbouring priests. To save her children from having to witness against her...
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Daléchamps, Jacques (or Jacobus Dale Champius)
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...important scientific work is the Historia generalis plantarum (1586 – 1587), the most complete botanical compilation...1610); and Historia generalis plantarum , 2 vols. (Lyons, 1586 – 1587; French trans., Lyons, 1615, 1653). There...
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De Groot, Jan Cornets
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Aristotelian experiment, published by Stevin in his Waterwicht (1586, p. 66), anticipated Galileo ’ s famous, but apocryphal...to him his approximation of to π 20 decimal places (1586). Van Roomen, in his Ideae mathematicae (1593), praises...
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Pereira (or Pererius), Benedictus
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...seems to have been inspired by Sixtus V ’ s bull of 1586 condemning judicial astrology. pereira used arguments from Giovanni...Rome, 1562), later reprinted in Rome (1576, 1585) Venice (1586, 1592, 1609), Paris (1579, 1585, 1589), Lyons (1585...
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Bar
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms
Bar a bank of sand or gravel, esp. at the mouth of a river; barristers or lawyers collectively. Examples: bar [barristers collectively ], 1559; bar of gravel, 1586; of sand, 1586.
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Babington plot
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Babington plot, 1586. Anthony Babington (1561–86), a Derbyshire gentleman and...Gilbert Gifford, as an agent. Babington was executed in September 1586 and the plot sealed the fate of Mary by convincing Elizabeth that she...
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