1518 in science
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The year 1518 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
Astronomy
Exploration
- May 1 â Juan de Grijalva arrives at the Tabasco region of Mexico.[1]
- MartÃn Fernández de Enciso publishes his Suma de Geographia in Castile, a summary of world geography incorporating the latest discoveries in the New World.[dubious â discuss]
Mathematics
- Henricus Grammateus publishes Ayn neu Kunstlich Buech in Vienna, containing the earliest printed use of plus and minus signs for arithmetic.[2] He also publishes Libellus de compositione regularum pro vasorum mensuratione. Deque arte ista tota theoreticae et practicae and a new musical temperament.[3]
- Adam Ries publishes Rechnung auff der linihen, describing the use of a calculating board, a kind of two-dimensional abacus, for practical arithmetic.[1]
Medicine
- July â dancing plague, a case of dancing mania, breaks out in Strasbourg.[4]
- September 23 â College of Physicians founded in London.[5]
- Jacopo Berengario da Carpi publishes Tractatus de Fractura Calve sive Cranii in Bologna, the first monograph on neurosurgery.[6]
- Publication of Antonio de Nebrija's Lexicon artis medicamentariae, "which contains the correspondence in vulgar language of the Greek and Latin names of the plants".[7]
Births
- July 3 - Li Shizhen, Chinese physician, pharmacologist and mineralogist (died 1593)