He returned to Lisbon in 1540, and acted as secretary to Prince Luís, and as tutor to his son, the prior of Crato, obtaining also two benefices in the diocese of Viseu.

Alfred North-Coombes ( author of The Island of Rodrigues ), records that the maps dated back to 1540 of the island carried the following inscriptions " i que achou Diogo Roiz ".

The precise date of Francisco Álvares death, like that of his birth, is unknown, but the writer of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article concludes it was later than 1540, in which year an account of his travels were published at Lisbon.

The first printed book on either gunpowder or metalworking, it was published posthumously in 1540, with 9 editions over 138 years, and also reprinted by MIT Press in 1966.

He concurrently worked on another book, the Commentary on Romans, which was published in March 1540.

His first commentary on Romans was published in 1540, and he planned to write commentaries on the entire New Testament.

In consequence of the bitter controversy with Luther that resulted, Agricola in 1540 left Wittenberg secretly for Berlin, where he published a letter addressed to Frederick III, Elector of Saxony, which was generally interpreted as a recantation of his obnoxious views.

* Franciscus Vieta ( 1540 – 1603 ) published In Artem Analycitem Isagoge ( 1591 ), which gave the first symbolic notation of parameters in literal algebra.

In 1540 he published a Latin edition of Ptolemy's Geographia with illustrations.

Luther published Barnes ' confession with a preface of his own as Bekenntnis des Glaubens ( 1540 ).

A brief tract on comic metres ( De comicis dimensionibus ) and a work De causis linguae Latinae ( Lyon, 1540 ; Geneva, 1580 ), which was the earliest Latin grammar founded on scientific principles and following a scientific method, were his only other purely literary works published in his lifetime.

The term was first used by Agostino Steuco ( 1497 – 1548 ) who used it to title a treatise, De perenni philosophia libri X, published in 1540.

Lodovico Ferrari is attributed with the discovery of the solution to the quartic in 1540, but since this solution, like all algebraic solutions of the quartic, requires the solution of a cubic to be found, it couldn't be published immediately.

The first mathematics textbooks to be written in English and French were published by Robert Recorde, beginning with The Grounde of Artes in 1540.

In 1533 and 1534 he published two books of four voice madrigals in Venice ; these were to become extremely popular, so much so that their 1540 reprint was one of the most widely printed and distributed music books of the first half of the 16th century.

In 1540 he published the famous Fides, religio, moresque Aethiopum.

Collected, but not quite complete, editions of Valla's works were published at Basel in 1540 and at Venice in 1592, and De Elegantiis was reprinted nearly sixty times between 1471 and 1536.

The first published polyphonic settings of the Symbolum Apostolorum were settings by the French composer Le Brung in 1540, and two further settings by the Spanish composer Fernando de las Infantas in 1578.

Towards Reformed doctrine of eucharist this had become evident already in 1540, when Melanchthon had published another version of the Augsburg Confession (" Variata "), in which the article on the Real Presence differed essentially from what had been expressed in 1530.

Some scholars infer that Verdelot was alive until about 1540, based on some ambiguous references to contemporary events in his works published during the 1530s.

He is best known for his manual on metalworking, De la pirotechnia, published posthumously in 1540.

Map of the New World published in 1540, showing Japan and China very near North America, and Strait of Anián.

Rheticus read Copernicus ' manuscript and immediately wrote a non-technical summary of its main theories in the form of an open letter addressed to Schöner, his astrology teacher in Nürnberg ; he published this letter as the Narratio Prima in Danzig in 1540.

In 1540 he co-founded the Accademia degli Umidi (" Academy of the Humid ") afterwards called della Fiorentina, and later took a leading role in the establishment of the more famous Accademia della Crusca, which published his Vocabulario of words accepted as the purest Italian.

Later, under Thomas Cromwell's direction, Taverner became actively engaged in producing works designed to encourage the Reformation in England, which included the publication of his translation of the Bible in 1539, and a commentary published in 1540 with Henry VIII's approval.

Veggio was an early composer of madrigals, of which two books have survived, published in Venice in 1540 ( the first to formally feature note nere under the name misura breve ) and 1544, for four and eight voices respectively.

He produced an interlude at Linlithgow Palace thought to be a version of his play The Thrie Estaitis in 1540, the first surviving full Scottish play, which satirised the corruption of church and state.

In 1540, Melanchthon published another version of the " Augsburg Confession ", in which the article on the Real Presence differed essentially from what had been expressed in 1530.

Portuguese priest Francisco Álvares ( 1465 – 1540 ), who accompanied the Portuguese Ambassador on his visit to Lebna Dengel in the 1520s.

The first account by a western European to mention the ancient language Sanskrit came from Filippo Sassetti ( born in Florence in 1540 ), a merchant who traveled to the Indian subcontinent.

François ( b. 1540 ) printed on his own account in Geneva from 1562 – 1582, issuing a number of editions of the Bible in Latin and French, and some of Calvin's works.

A date of c. 1540 is suggested from two portraits: one a miniature painted by Nicholas Hilliard in 1581 when he was allegedly 42, the other painted in 1594 when he was said to be 53.

On 21 September 1540 the council commissioned one of its members, Ami Perrin, to find a way to recall Calvin.

Cromwell fell from favour and was arrested for treason in June 1540 ; one of the unlikely charges against him was that he had plotted to marry Mary himself.

A number of editions of the Vulgate also appeared from his presses, of which the principal are those of 1528, 1532, 1540 ( one of the ornaments of his press ), and 1546.

The first Europeans to travel through central Alabama were Hernando de Soto and his expedition, who went through Ikanatchati and camped for one week in Towassa in 1540.

In the fall of 1540, the Spanish Hernando de Soto expedition rested here for about one month during its exploration of the Southeast.

In the late middle ages, Waltham was one of the largest church buildings in England and a major site of pilgrimage ; in 1540 was the last religious community to be closed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

Hernando de Alvarado was reported as being one of the first Europeans to lay eyes on the middle Rio Grande Valley in September of 1540 as the leader of a small convoy sent out by Coronado.

Luys Hernandez de Biedma, one of de Soto ’ s officers wrote of a group of men who made their way to what is now Tryon on May 21, 1540: " The next day, they went to Xuala which is a town on a plain between some rivers ; its chief was so well provisioned that he gave to the Christians however much they asked for: slaves, corn, little dogs opossums … and however much he had.

Before 1540 he was sworn of James V of Scotland's privy council, and was known as one of the party in favour of the English alliance and of an ecclesiastical reformation.

The priory was formally dissolved on 8 April 1540 and surrendered to the king's men on 22 December 1540, making it one of the last monastic houses in England to be suppressed.

The Castle was built in 1540 as one of three on this part of the Kent coast by orders of Henry VIII.

In 1540, expeditions under Hernando de Alarcon and Melchior Diaz visited the area of Yuma and immediately saw the natural crossing of the Colorado River from Mexico to California by land, as an ideal spot for a city, as the Colorado River narrows to slightly under 1000 feet wide in one small point.

Barnabe Googe or Gooche ( 11 June 1540 – 7 February 1594 ) ( also spelled Barnaby Googe ) was a poet and translator, one of the earliest English pastoral poets.

Having been on errands abroad, he was made one of the king's principal secretaries in 1540 ( a position he held jointly with Sir Ralph Sadler ), and was knighted in the same year ; in spite of the fall of his patron, Thomas Cromwell, he rose higher and higher in the royal favour, and in 1542 it was said that he governed almost everything in England.

Viseu was the birthplace of one of the greatest Portuguese painters of the sixteenth century, Vasco Fernandes ( 1475 – 1540 ), known as Grão Vasco, who today lends his name to a museum that houses most of his paintings ( the Grão Vasco Museum ), a hotel, a school, and even a wine label.

Born near Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, Seckford was educated at Cambridge, and in 1540 entered Gray's Inn, Thomas became one of Queen Elizabeth I ’ s two Masters in Ordinary of the Court of Requests which dealt with poor men ’ s causes.

Constructed in 1540, during the Ming Dynasty, this archway is one of the biggest stone archways in China today.

However, as Robert Julyan notes, " the most likely explanation is the one believed by the Sandia Indians: the Spaniards, when they encountered the Pueblo in 1540, called it Sandia, because they thought the squash growing there were watermelons, and the name Sandia soon was transferred to the mountains east of the pueblo.

Chester records of 1540 show fees due to the bellman included ' of every worshipful gentyllman that goyth onye gounes at ther buryall ... one goune funerals gowns would be given to mourners.

In 1540 he was one of the fifteen divines to whom were referred crucial questions on the sacraments and the seat of authority in the Church ; his answers ( printed in Pocock's Burnet, iii.

The Regius Professorship of Physic is one of the oldest professorships at the University of Cambridge, founded by Henry VIII in 1540.