Named Entity Results, 1553 AD

Hakluyt, Richard 1553- Author; born in England about 1553. Educated at Oxford University, he was engaged there as a lecturer on cosmography, and was the first who taught the use of globes. In 1583 he published an account of voyages of discovery to America; and four years afterwards, while with the English ambassador at Paris, Sir Edward Stafford, probably as his chaplain, he published in French a narrative of the voyages of Laudonniere and others; and in 1587 he published them in English,1553. Educated at Oxford University, he was engaged there as a lecturer on cosmography, and was the first who taught the use of globes. In 1583 he published an account of voyages of discovery to America; and four years afterwards, while with the English ambassador at Paris, Sir Edward Stafford, probably as his chaplain, he published in French a narrative of the voyages of Laudonniere and others; and in 1587 he published them in English, under the title Of four voyages unto Florida. On his return to England in 1589, Hakluyt was appointed by Raleigh one of the company of adventurers for colonizing Virginia. His greatest work, The principal Navigations, voyages, Trafficks, and discoveries of the English nation, made by sea or over land, to the most remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compass of these fifteen hundred years, was published the same year. It contains many curious documents, a

f the transports carrying them over were captured by the French, who were also at war with England at that time, about 500 of the Americans being taken with them. The losses of the British in this campaign were far greater from disease than from battle, being in all between 1,700 and 1,800 men, while the Spanish force opposed to them was about 28,000, or about twice the strength of the British. It is said, however, that at one time almost half the British force was on the sick report. In 1553 the French occupied Santiago, evacuating it afterwards on the payment by the Spanish of $80,000 as a ransom. In October, 1662, a British fleet appeared off Santiago, and 900 men were landed at Aguadores, who, although opposed by the Spanish, marched on and seized Santiago. In July, 1741, a British fleet, under Admiral Vernon, sailed to Guantanamo, and a force of 5,000 men under General Wentworth, of the British army, was landed there. At the commencement of the recent war, the general im

I. The guinea, so called from being made of African gold, was issued in 1663, and stamped with an elephant. The name sovereign (English pound sterling) was of later date, reign of James I. The screw-press was invented by Bucher, a Frenchman, in 1553, and was established in the English mint in 1602. The edge was grained at first to prevent clipping. A motto was placed on the edge in 1651. The first coin or medal with milled edges is said to be that of George Frederick, Marquis of Brandenbir from those liquors which they wished to preserve. Stoppers of cork seem to have been first introduced after the invention of glass bottles, and these do not appear to have come into use before the fifteenth century. When Stephanus wrote (in 1553), cork was used in France principally for soles; and in Germany wax stoppers were used by the apothecaries until about the close of the seventeenth century, Where the tree is indigenous, the inhabitants apply cork to many purposes. In Spain, b

ed, c the cutting-edge, and b the gage for regulating the depth of the incision. Themison, a physician of Laodicea who flourished a little before Celsus (first century A. D.), mentions the use of leeches. Michael Servetus, burnt at Geneva in 1553, announced and explained the circulation of the blood, correctly describing the action of the heart, the duty of the arteries and the veins, and the influence of the lungs. He correctly describes the single circulation, and is the first to employses referred to by Bacon, as a mere lens was well known and would excite no marvel, spectacles having been well known for three centuries, and the naked lens for a time that the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. Frascatoro, who died in 1553, states the matter properly: If any one will look through two lenses, one placed over the other, he will see everything much larger and clearer. J. Baptista Porta (about 1560) states: If you know how to combine a convex and a concave glass, one

of longitude in English feetLatitude.Length of degree of longitude in English feet. 0365,16250235,171 10359,64060183,629 20343,26370125,254 30316,4938063,612 40280,106900 Odometers were possessed by Augustus, the Elector of Saxony, A. D. 1553-86, and for Emperor Rodolphus II. 1576-1612. In the eighteenth century they became common, and descriptions are found in scientific reports and works of that date. Hohlfield, born at Hennerndorf, in Saxony, in 1711, seems to have much improvee apparatus was constructed to illustrate the Ptolemaic theory of the heavens. The various parts were moved by trains of cog-wheels. Life of A. Politiano, published by Cadell and Davis, London, about 1800. A planetary clock was made by Finee, 1553, and a planetarium by De Rheita in 1650. Or′se-dew. Leaf metal of bronze. Dutch metal. Or′tho-graph. A drawing representing a structure in elevation, external or internal. The internal orthograph is usually termed a vertical section