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

In the 16th century, a Swiss-born physician commonly known as Paracelsus made chickens breathe sweet vitriol and noted that they not only fell asleep but also felt no pain.

* 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 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.

Ligatures, or material used to tie off severed blood vessels, originated as early as ancient Rome, and were improved by Ambroise Paré in the 16th century.

This method of hemostasis was largely forgotten until it was rediscovered by the French barber-surgeon Ambroise Paré in the 16th century.