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Venetian ceruse or Venetian white, [2] also known as blanc de céruse de Venise [3] and Spirits of Saturn, [4] was a 16th-century cosmetic used as a skin whitener. It was in great demand and considered the best available at the time, supposedly containing the best quality white lead sourced from Venice, the global merchant capital at the time.
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the ... with the cross added at the top in the 16th century to Christianize this ... During the early 20th century ...
4 16th century. 5 17th century. 6 18th century. 7 19th century. 8 1900–1957. 9 1958–1976. ... 2012 – Saturn's moon Methone is imaged up close by the Cassini ...
This basic cosmological model prevailed, in various forms, until the 16th century. In the 3rd century BC Aristarchus of Samos was the first to suggest a heliocentric system, although only fragmentary descriptions of his idea survive. [37] Eratosthenes estimated the circumference of the Earth with great accuracy (see also: history of geodesy). [38]
Copernicus arrived to the same conclusion in the 16th century. [57] Ibn al-Shatir, during the 14th century, in an attempt to resolve Ptolemy's inconsistent lunar theory, applied a double epicycle model to the Moon which reduced the predicted displacement of the Moon from the Earth. [61] Copernicus also arrived at the same conclusion in the 16th ...
The timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their natural satellites charts the progress of the discovery of new bodies over history. Each object is listed in chronological order of its discovery (multiple dates occur when the moments of imaging, observation, and publication differ), identified through its various designations (including temporary and permanent schemes), and the ...
c. 16th century BCE – Mesopotamian cosmology has a flat, circular Earth enclosed in a cosmic ocean. [1]c. 15th–11th century BCE – The Rigveda of Hinduism has some cosmological hymns, particularly in the late book 10, notably the Nasadiya Sukta which describes the origin of the universe, originating from the monistic Hiranyagarbha or "Golden Egg".
He is a key figure in the 17th-century Scientific ... Jupiter, and Saturn. ... Technology and Philosophy in the 16th and 17th centuries. George Allen & Unwin, 1950. ...