A vernier scale lets one read more precisely from an evenly divided straight or circular measurement scale. It is fitted with a sliding secondary scale that is used to indicate where the measurement lies when it is in-between two of the marks on the main scale.
It was invented in its modern form in 1631 by the French mathematician Pierre Vernier (1580–1637). In some languages, this device is called a nonius, which is the latin name of the Portuguese astronomer and mathematician P ...
Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel (Alkmaar, 1572 - London, November 7, 1633) was a Dutch inventor of first navigable submarine in 1620.
Drebbel only had elementary education (which included Latin) but had no university education. In youth he was apprenticed to the famous engraver Hendrick Goltzius in Haarlem and Drebbel married in 1595 Sophia Jansdochter, one of Goltzius' younger sisters. In the same year he settled at Alkmaar, where he devoted himself to engraving and publishing maps and pictures. In 1604, King James I of England receive ...
William Morgan (1545 – September 10, 1604), was the translator of the first version of the whole Bible into Welsh.
Morgan was born in 1545 in the parish of Penmachno, near Betws-y-Coed. As his father was a tenant of the Gwydir estate, he was probably educated at Gwydir Castle, near Llanrwst, along with the children of the Wynn family. Morgan then attended St John's College, Cambridge where he studied a range of subjects including philosophy, mathematics and Greek. He received a BA in 1568 and an MA in 1571 before spending sev ...
The Wodeyar dynasty (also spelt as Wadiyar-by the British and the Royal family members themselves and also as Odeyar by some) was an Indian royal dynasty that ruled the Kingdom of Mysore from 1399 to 1947, until the independence of India from British rule and the subsequent unification of British dominions and princely states into the Republic of India.
Wodeyar - Early History.
The dynasty was established by Vijaya, who by some accounts came to Mysore from Dwaraka. Vijaya took on the name Yaduraya ...
The Catacombs of Rome are ancient Christian underground burial places near Rome, Italy.
Etruscans used to bury their dead in underground chambers. Christians revived the practice because they did not want to cremate their dead due to their belief in bodily resurrection. Hence they began to bury their dead, first in simple graves and sometimes in burial vaults of pro-Christian patricians.
The first large-scale catacombs were excavated from the 2nd century onwards. Originally they were carved through soft rock outside the ...
Benghazi (Arabic بنغازي, transliterated Banġāzī) is a seaport in Libya, Africa. The present name is derived from that of a pious benefactor of the city named Ghazi or "Sidi Ghazi," as the locals called him, who died about 1450. The city was renamed "Bani Ghazi". The population was 500,120 in 1995 (census) and an estimated 637,000 in 2003.
Benghazi - History.
Modern Benghazi, on the Gulf of Sidra, lies a little southwest of the site of the ancient Greek city of Berenice ...
Chapbook is a generic term to cover a particular genre of pocket-sized booklet, popular from the sixteenth through to the later part of the nineteenth century. No exact definition can be applied. Chapbook can mean anything that would have formed part of the stock of chapmen, a variety of pedlar. The word chapman probably comes from the Anglo-Saxon word for barter, buy and sell.
The term chapbook was coined by bibliophiles of the nineteenth century, as a variety of [ephemera]]. It includes many kinds of printed material, ...
Charles IX (June 27, 1550 – May 30, 1574) was born Charles-Maximilien, the son of King Henri II of France and Catherine de Medici. He was born in the royal chateau at Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
After the death of his elder brother, Francis II, in 1560, he inherited the throne and was crowned King of France in 1561 in the cathedral at Reims. The politics of that era was greatly influenced by the power of the ambitious Catherine de Medici and the Guises.
During the reign of Charles IX a new product was introduced, designed to cure ulcers and heal wounds along wit ...
Zacharias Ursinus (1534-1583), a sixteenth century German theologian, born Zacharias Baer in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland). Like all young scholars of that era he gave himself a Latin name from ursus, meaning bear. He is best known as a professor of theology at the University of Heidelberg and co-author with Caspar Olevianus (1536-1587) of the Heidelberg Catechism.
At age fifteen he enrolled at Wittenberg University, boarding for the next seven years with Philipp Melanchthon, the erudite successor of Marti ...
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Bayonne (Basque: Baiona; Spanish: Bayona) is a city and commune of southwest France at the confluence of the Nive and Adour rivers, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département, of which it is a sous-préfecture.
Bayonne has a population of 42,000. It is, together with nearby Anglet and Biarritz, part of "BAB", an urban ar ...
Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes (1578 - December 15, 1621), was constable of France and the first duke of Luynes.
He was the first son of Honoré d'Albert (d. 1592), seigneur de Luynes, who was in the service of the three last Valois kings and of Henry IV of France.
Charles was brought up in court and attended the dauphin, who later became Louis XIII. The king shared his fondness for hunting and rapidly advanced him in favour. In 1615 he was appointed commander of the Louvre and counsellor, and the following year ...
1539 - Events.
May 30 - In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal to find gold. He also introduced Pigs into North America
May - 6 Articles Statute of English Parliament, important in the English Reformation"
September 4 - Henry VIII contracts to marry Anne of Cleves
September 7 - Guru Angad Dev ji becomes the second Guru of the Sikhs
Lutheranism is forcefully introduced to Iceland, despite the opposition of Bishop Jón Arason.
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1535 - Events.
January 18 - Lima, Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro
April - Jacques Cartier discovers the Iroquois city of Stadacona, Canada (now Quebec) and in May, the even greater Huron city of Hochelaga
June 24 - The Anabaptist state of Münster (see Münster Rebellion) is conquered and disbanded.
May 19 - French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail for his second voyage to North America with 3 ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's 2 sons (who Cartier kidnapped during his first ...
1547 - Events.
January 16 - Grand Duke Ivan IV of Muscovy becomes the first Tsar of Russia.
January 28 - Edward VI succeeds his father Henry VIII as King of England.
February 20 - Edward VI of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey
March 31 - Henry II succeeds his father Francis I as King of France
April 24 - Battle of Mühlberg - Emperor Charles V defeats the forces of the Schmalkaldic League under the Elector John Frederick of Saxony.
September 10 - Battle of ...
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1553 - Births.
January 22 - Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (d. 1625)
May 14 - Margaret of Valois, queen of Henry IV of France (died 1615)
July 15 - Archduke Ernest of Austria (died 1595)
November 23 - Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (died 1617)
December 13 - King Henry IV of France (died 1610)
Patriarch Filaret of Moscow and All Rus' (died 1633)
Giovanni Florio, English writer and translator ...
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Transition from the Muromachi to the Azuchi-Momoyama period in Japan
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1554 - Events.
January 5 - Great fire in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
February - Thomas Wyatt surrenders to government forces in London.
February 12 - After claiming the throne of England the previous year, Lady Catherine Grey is beheaded for treason alongside her husband.
March 17 - Princess Elizabeth imprisoned in The Tower.
April 12 - Mary of Guise becomes Regent of Scotland.
July 23 - 25 - Wedding of Queen Mary I of England and King Philip of Naples, only son of E ...
1530 - Events.
June 25 - Augsburg confession presented to Charles V of Holy Roman Empire.
August 12 - Florence is captured by Spanish troops under Prince Philibert of Orange. The Medici are restored in the person of the Pope's nephew Alessandro de Medici.
Knights of Malta are formed when the Knights Hospitaller are given Malta by Pope Clement VIII.
Ducal palace of Celle constructed.
Martin Afonso de Souza's expedition to patrol the Brazilian coast, banish the French, and ...
1527 - Events.
January 5 - Felix Manz, co-founder of the Swiss Anabaptists, was drowned in the Limmat River in Zürich by the Zürich Reformed state church.
May 6 - Spanish and German troops led by the Duke of Bourbon sack Rome (the infamous Sacco di Roma), forcing Pope Clement VII to make peace with Charles V.
May 16 - Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes a republic.
Spanish conquest of Guatemala highlands completed; first Guatemala City ...
1501 - Births.
January 16 - Anthony Denny, confidant of Henry VIII of England (died 1559)
January 17 - Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (died 1566)
May 6 - Pope Marcellus II (died 1555)
July 18 - Isabella of Burgundy, queen of Christian II of Denmark (died 1526)
September 24 - Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, physician, astrologer and gambler (died 1567)
November 25 - Yi Hwang, Korean Confucian scholar (died 1570)
Girolamo da Carpi, ...
