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.

Two treatises are sometimes erroneously attributed to him, one On Emotions, the other a commentary on Aristotle's Ethics ( really by Constantine Palaeocapa in the 16th century, or by John Callistus of Thessalonica ).

The Iranian mathematician Muhammad Baqir Yazdi ( 16th century ) discovered the pair ( 9363584, 9437056 ), though this has often been attributed to Descartes.

It includes the Palazzo Eucherio Sanvitale, with interesting decorations dating from the 16th centuries and attributed to Gianfrancesco d ' Agrate, and a fresco by Parmigianino.

The Motul Dictionary, compiled in the 16th century by an anonymous author ( although attributed to Fray Antonio de Ciudad Real ), contains a list of stars originally observed by the ancient Mayas.

The invention of this constellation is obscure but can be attributed to 16th century seafarers.

Other artworks include several 15th and 16th centuries paintings, and, in the chapel, a terracotta relief depicting a Dormitio Virginis, attributed to Michele da Firenze.

Returning to Heidelberg he became Privatdozent in theology in 1829, and in 1831 published his Begriff der Kritik am Alten Testamente praktisch erörtert, a study of Old Testament criticism in which he explained the critical principles of the grammatico-historical school, and his Des Propheten Jonas Orakel über Moab, an exposition of the 5th and 16th chapters of the book of Isaiah attributed by him to the prophet Jonah mentioned in 2 Kings xiv.

Many of the earlier papal tiaras ( most notably the tiaras of Pope Julius II and that attributed to Pope Saint Silvester ) were destroyed, dismantled or seized by invaders ( most notably by Berthier's army in 1798 ), or by popes themselves ; Pope Clement VII had all the tiaras and papal regalia melted down in 1527 to raise the 400, 000 ducats ransom demanded by the occupying army of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. Over twenty silver tiaras exist, of which the earliest, the sole survivor of 1798, was made for Pope Gregory XIII in the 16th century.

* Church of St. Benedict, with an external fountain attributed to Antonio da Sangallo the Elder ( 16th century ).

The Madonna and Saints ( which passed from the Duchatel collection to the Louvre ), the Virgin and Child ( painted for Sir John Donne and now at the National Gallery, London ), and the four attributed portraits in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence ( including the Portrait of Folco Portinari ), show that his work was widely appreciated in the 16th century.

There are almost 650 drawings dating from the 16th century, outstanding among which are two by Michelangelo, Study of a Man's right Arm and Study of a right Shoulder and Chest, re-discovered and attributed to the artist in 2004.

It was written in the 16th century during the Ming Dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng ' en.

* The Palazzo Racani-Arroni ( 16th century ) has a worn graffito decoration attributed to Giulio Romano.

Their repeated publications and translations to other languages well into the 16th century is evidence to the value attributed to the horticultural knowledge of antiquity.

Coat of arms attributed to the Nemanjić dynasty in the Fojnica Armorial, based on the Ohmućević Armorial ( late 16th century ).

Traditional Swiss historiography since the 16th century has attributed the turning of the tide to the heroic deed of Arnold von Winkelried, who opened a breach in the Habsburg lines by throwing himself into their pikes, taking them down with his body so that the confederates could attack through the opening.

The spectacular growth of the city in the 16th century may be attributed to the establishment of trade connections with English and Dutch merchants ( Muscovy Company ) through the northern port of Archangel.

" Early usage of the verb to spoon can be traced back to the 16th century ; the change from spoon to spin in the term spindrift is attributed to a local Scottish pronunciation.

The above Tanaga is attributed to Friars Juan de Noceda and Pedro de Sanlucar by Vim Nadera, and quoted them as saying “ Poesia muy alta en tagalo, compuesta de siete silabas, y cuatro versos, llena de metafora .” ( 16th century ) (" There is high poetry in Tagalog, composed of seven syllables and four verses with frequent metaphors.

The tradition ( fixed probably in the 16th century ) says that the Moorish people had gathered around 5, 000 men from all Estremadura ( Alenquer, Óbidos, Tomar, Torres Novas and Torres Vedras ) to fight against only 1500 Christians, but the latter defeated the Muslims in a large blood bath, with this wondrous victory personally attributed to the intervention of the Holy Virgin, which brought many Christians speaking strange languages ( this is, the crusades that took Lisbon that same year ).

This treatise was rediscovered in the 16th century, and its subsequent impact on aesthetics is usually attributed to its translation into French by Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux in 1674.

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

The desire to self-identify can likely be attributed to the diverse and independent history of the archipelagic country-comprising 7, 107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean-which trace back 30, 000 years before becoming a Spanish colony in the 16th century and later occupied by the United States, which led to the outbreak of the Philippine – American War ( 1899 – 1902 ).

The interior houses the Holy Sacrament Chapel ( late 15th-early 16th century ), in Bramantesque style, variously attributed to Giovanni Battagio ; also present are works by Bernardino Campi, Giovanni Moriggia, Giulio Cesare Procaccini and Nicola Moietta.