I don't even remember who wrote it but it was one of those 15th or 16th century poets.

There was keen competition between the two from the introduction of the The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing | Algebra into Europe in the 12th century until its triumph in the 16th.

The abacus had fallen out of use in western Europe in the 16th century with the rise of decimal notation and algorismic methods.

The vowels are significant in the Greek language, and the syllabical Linear B script which was used by the Mycenaean Greeks from the 16th century BC had 87 symbols including 5 vowels.

* Anatomy in the 16th century studies and digitized texts by the BIUM ( Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de médecine et d ' odontologie, Paris ) see its digital library Medic @.

The diverse ethnic communities – the Ovimbundu, Ambundu, Bakongo, Chokwe, and other peoples – maintain to varying degrees their own cultural traits, traditions and languages, but in the cities, where slightly more than half of the population now lives, a mixed culture has been emerging since colonial times – in Luanda since its foundation in the 16th century.

Kingdom of Portugal's explorers and settlers, founded trading posts and forts along the coast of Africa since the 15th century, and reached the Angolan coast in the 16th century.

Parts of both countries were part of the Portuguese Empire from the early 16th century until Brazil's independence in 1822.

Granuaile maintained a castle at Kildownet in the 16th century.

Kildamhnait on the south east coast of Achill is named after St. Damhnait, or Dymphna, who founded a church there in the 16th century.

At the peak of its efficiency in the early 16th century, the Venetian Arsenal employed some 16, 000 people who apparently were able to produce nearly one ship each day, and could fit out, arm, and provision a newly-built galley with standardized parts on an assembly-line basis not seen again until the Industrial Revolution.

These ideas were found in a number of Kabbalistic works from the 13th century, and also among many mystics in the late 16th century.

In the 16th century, Tycho Brahe used improved instruments, including large mural instruments, to measure star positions more accurately than previously, with a precision of 15 – 35 arcsec.

Gothic-This style prevailed between the 12th century and the 16th century in Europe.

Renaissance architects included Alberti, Brunelleschi and Bramante. Many of these artists came from Florence and it remained an important centre for the Renaissance into the 16th century eventually to be overtaken by Rome and Venice.

With the Academies in Europe ( second half of 16th century ) the gap between fine and applied arts was definitely set.

A third use of the term pertains specifically to the indigenous peoples of the Americas, for instance, " In the 16th century, many Americans died from imported diseases during the European conquest ".

The most common is Martin Waldseemüller's deriving it from Americus Vespucius, the Latinised version of Amerigo Vespucci's name, the Italian merchant and cartographer who explored South America's east coast and the Caribbean sea in the early 16th century.

Many Christian denominations have been influenced by Arminian views, notably the Baptists ( See A History of the Baptists Third Edition by Robert G. Torbet ) in the 16th century, the Methodists, the Congregationalists of the early New England colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries and the Universalists and Unitarians in the 18th and 19th centuries.

There is a long history of mining in the Andes, from the Spanish silver mines in Potosí in the 16th century to the vast current porphyry copper deposits of Chuquicamata and Escondida in Chile and Toquepala in Peru.

According to a 16th century French poem, Dionysus, the god of intoxication, and of wine, was pursuing a maiden named Amethystos, who refused his affections.

From the early 16th century, Aachen lost power.

16th century BC — Mesopotamian cosmology has a flat, circular earth enclosed in a cosmic ocean.

The first circular temperament was described by the organist Arnolt Schlick in the early 16th century, but " well temperaments " did not become widely used until the baroque period.

In the early 16th century, the debate on the Earth's motion was continued by Al-Birjandi ( d. 1528 ), who in his analysis of what might occur if the Earth were rotating, develops a hypothesis similar to Galileo Galilei's notion of " circular inertia ", which he described in the following observational test:

The star-shaped fortress and the circular town plan are based on an Italian renaissance fortress concept from the 16th century.

In the United States, perhaps the first recorded patent for the circular saw was issued in 1777 to an English man, Samuel Miller ; it refers to a circular saw that was created in Holland in the 16th or 17th centuries.

In the early 16th century, the debate on the Earth's motion was continued by Al-Birjandi ( d. 1528 ), who in his analysis of what might occur if the Earth were rotating, develops a hypothesis similar to Galileo Galilei's notion of " circular inertia ", which he described in the following observational test:

In the 16th and 17th centuries, the three circular defences were built: Kitay-gorod ( Китай-город ), the White City ( Белый город ) and the Earthen City ( Земляной город ).

An oculus, circular window, or " rain-hole " ( Latin: compluvium ) is a feature of Classical architecture since the 16th century.

In the east window of the south chapel are set fifteen medallions of German or Flemish glass of the 16th and 17th centuries ; five are circular, the others oval ; they mostly depict scenes from the Old and New Testaments and include a Nativity, and the placing of our Lord in the sepulchre.

The Ninewells Doocot, in a garden adjacent to the church, is a 16th century circular beehive type doocot ( dovecot ).

The squared apse is closed with a circular dome and cupola is not as high as the nave and is likely from the 16th century.

Radio France has its headquarters at the Maison de la Radio, a circular building designed by the architect Henri Bernard and inaugurated in December 1963 by President Charles de Gaulle, which stands beside the River Seine in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.

At the confluence of Demonbreun Street, Division Street, 16th Avenue South, and Music Square East is the " Music Row Roundabout ," a circular intersection designed to accommodate a continuous flow of traffic.

The southern part of what is now Midtown was already within the 1889 limits, but in 1904 the City annexes most of the rest of what is now Midtown: this is an area bounded by the 1889 circular city limits on the south, and West Peachtree St. on the west, stretching north up to but not including Ansley Park ( roughly 6th to 16th Streets ), Piedmont Park, the remainder of Historic Midtown east to what is now the BeltLine.

The series has been described as " the most essential to our understanding of the human condition in modern times, just as Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling is essential to understanding the tenor of the 16th century ".

The rooms are decorated with a ceiling and chimney dating from the 18th century in one part and from the 16th century in the second.

The decoration dates from the 16th century, during Doge Girolamo Priùli's reign, who appears in Tintoretto ’ s ceiling painting with the symbols of his office, and accompanied by scenes of biblical stories and allegories of the four seasons, probably by Tintoretto ’ s workshop, Girolamo Bassano and Veronese.

In 1466 Juraj Dalmatinac became supervisor of the construction works on the church, while the building itself was carried out by his disciples ; finished not before the beginning of the 16th century ; restored in the 18th century, when the stucco work on the ceiling was performed.

The mannerist and Baroque style interiors of Jesuit churches in the 16th and 17th century often included such trompe-l ' œil ceiling paintings, which optically " open " the ceiling or dome to the heavens with a depiction of Jesus ', Mary's, or a saint's ascension or assumption.

During the same work, when the ceiling from the entrance lobby underneath the bell tower was removed, it revealed several large oak beams probably used during the reconstruction of the tower in the 16th century.

It has Romanesque foundations, but the actual structure is Gothic with an interesting apse, extensive Gothic frescoes from the 15th and early 16th century on the interior walls, a renovated wooden ceiling, and two gilded Baroque altars.

Its ceiling contains a reproduction of the Annunciation attributed to Guido Reni, and its 16th century wooden organ is carved and gilded with gold.

16th century decorated ceiling in the palace.

A 16th century hand-carved ceiling from Northern Italy graces the ballroom.

On the unique flat panelled ceiling of the nave ( first half of the 16th Century ) are the heraldic shields of the contemporary kings of Europe, and the chief earls and bishops of Scotland.

Inside the ceiling of the audience hall with 28 cassettes in carved oak in renaissance style ( 16th century ).

The Memorial Building features 16 windows, 16 rosettes on the ceiling, and 16 fence poles, representing Lincoln's being the 16th president.

* Church of the Holy Conception, with a large tower, within which highlights its coffered ceiling of painted wood ( 16th century );

The paintings which decorate the church's ceiling were painted by Emvin Cremona during the 1960s while other works of art date back to the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries mostly painted by famous Maltese artists ; Gian Nikol Buhagiar, Francesco Zahra, Rokku Buhagiar and Ganni Vella above others.