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.

* In the late 16th century, the physician to margrave Georg Friedrich was the famous botanist, Leonhart Fuchs.

* Amato Lusitano – Portuguese 16th century physician, also credited with the discovery of the circulation of the blood

* Rustam Gorgani, 16th century physician

As a physician of the early 16th century, Paracelsus held a natural affinity with the Hermetic, neoplatonic, and Pythagorean philosophies central to the Renaissance, a world-view exemplified by Marsilio Ficino and Pico della Mirandola.

In the 16th century, the Dutch physician Laevinius Lemnius, referred to how a woman " draws forth the man's seed and casts her own with it.

In the 16th century, one of the local Jews served as a physician to the duke of Brieg.

The 16th century physician Ambroise Paré used the term commotio cerebri, as well as " shaking of the brain ", " commotion ", and " concussion ".

The work of Paracelsus, a 16th century physician and alchemist who made bold claims for his science, was also one of the inspirations to Hartlib and early chemistry.

Sherrington had long studied the 16th century French physician Jean Fernel, and grew so familiar with him that he considered him a friend.

* Rodrigo López ( physician ) ( c. 1525 – 1594 ), physician to Queen Elizabeth ( 16th century )

Hakim Ali ibn Kamal al-Din Muhammad Gilani () was a 16th century Persian royal physician from Gilan, Iran.

João Rodrigues de Castelo Branco, better known as Amato Lusitano and Amatus Lusitanus ( Castelo Branco, 1511 – Thessaloniki, 1568 ), was a notable Portuguese Jewish physician of the 16th century.

Sultan Ali Khorasani was a 16th century Persian physician from Khorasan, Persia.

It was developed by the 16th century astrologer and physician Jerome Cardan.

* Shaykh Bahai, a 16th century physician from Persia

The medical chemistry of the 16th and 17th centuries gained the name iatrochemistry, coming from the Greek word for physician.

The name honored Guillaume Rondelet, a natural historian, physician, and botany instructor at the university in Montpellier, France in the 16th century.

: The municipality of Rimini here records the claim of their city to the family of the Ramusios, adorned during the 15th and 16th centuries by the illustrious jurist and man of letters Paolo the elder, who rendered the work of Valturius, our fellow-citizen, into the vernacular ; by the physician Girolamo, a most successful student of Oriental tongues, and the first to present Europe with a translation of Avicenna ; and by Giovanni Battista, cosmographer to the Venetian republic and secretary to the Council of Ten, who bequeathed to the world that famous collection of voyages and travels, regarded in his own day as a marvellous work, and still full of authority among all civilized nations.

The most commonly cited explanation is a derivation from the Northern French dialect word hoguinané, or variants such as hoginane, hoginono and hoguinettes, those being derived from 16th century Old French aguillanneuf meaning either a gift given at New Year, a children's cry for such a gift, or New Year's Eve itself.

From the 16th century he is commonly identified as member of the family of Paganelli di Montemagno, which belonged to the Pisan aristocracy, but this has not been proven and contradicts earlier testimonies that suggest he was a man of rather humble origins.

From the 16th century on, there were attempts to elevate Robin Hood to the nobility and in two extremely influential plays Anthony Munday presented him at the very end of the 16th century as the Earl of Huntingdon, as he is still commonly presented in modern times.

Until the end of the 16th century, unanimity was not required, and the majority-voting process was the most commonly used system for voting.

They were commonly used in Ireland until the end of the 16th century.

She is commonly known by her nickname Granuaile in Irish folklore, and a historical figure in 16th century Irish history, and is sometimes known as " The Sea Queen of Connaught ".

Still forks were not commonly used in Western Europe until the 16th century when they became part of the etiquette in Italy.

Since the 16th century, the name of Mahishūru has commonly been used to denote the city.

The name " Maiden Castle ", or Castellum Puellarum in Latin, was commonly used until at least the 16th century.

They had been introduced to France from Genoa in the 16th century, and are featured in Olivier de Serres ' Théâtre de l ' agriculture ( 1600 ), as cauli-fiori " as the Italians call it, which are still rather rare in France ; they hold an honorable place in the garden because of their delicacy ", but they did not commonly appear on grand tables until the time of Louis XIV.

These dogs are commonly known as the Wolfspitz or Spitz type, which is German for " sharp point " which was the term originally used by Count Eberhard zu Sayn in the 16th Century as a reference to the features of the dog's nose and muzzle.

The 16th Century Thirty-Nine Articles list confirmation among those rites " commonly called Sacraments " which are " not to be counted for Sacraments of the Gospel " ( a term meaning Baptism and the Holy Eucharist ), as they were not directly instituted by Christ with a specific matter and form, and they are not generally necessary to salvation.

On May 22, 1949 he was found dead on the roof of a covered walkway below the window of a kitchen across the hall from his 16th floor room at the National Naval Medical Center ( NNMC, commonly known as the Bethesda Naval Hospital ), a bathrobe sash knotted tightly around his neck.

The 16th arrondissement is commonly thought to be one of the richest parts of Paris ( see Auteuil-Neuilly-Passy ), and features some of the most expensive real estate in France including the famous Auteuil " villas ", heirs to 19th century high society country houses, they are exclusive gated communities with huge houses surrounded by gardens, which is extremely rare in Paris.

By the 16th century — during the Ming Dynasty — local gazetteers were commonly composed due to local decision-making rather than a central government mandate.

Although Daines Barrington is of opinion that it is of Spanish origin, the poem of Francesco Berni, the earliest writer to mention the game, affords proof that it was at least commonly played in Italy at the beginning of the 16th century.

A Thesaurus pauperum of 1468 from Tegernsee states: “ Diana who is commonly known as Fraw Percht is in the habit of wandering through the night with a host of women .” A 16th century fable recorded by Erasmus Alberus speaks of “ an army of women ” with sickles in hand sent by Frau Hulda.

The Julian Calendar is commonly opposed to the Gregorian Calendar introduced to Christianity by the Pope during the 16th century.

The most commonly used chronicle, because it gives a lot of geographical and chronological details, is the one written by Daniele Barbaro in the 16th century.

The Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore (), commonly known as, is a 16th century Roman Catholic church located in the Dorsoduro sestiere of the Italian city of Venice.

It deals with the overuse of the word fag, along with its history and how it evolved from a 16th century slang meaning " old or unpleasant woman " to a homophobic slur into a general insult commonly used amongst American youth.

By the end of the 16th century the text of the Code was divided into 100 chapters ( or " Sto glav " in Russian ), and had become commonly referred to as the Stoglav.

Since the 16th century, the English word keep has commonly referred to large towers in castles.