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It is possibly the first printed English text to include an ellipsis (...) as a mark of omission. Agostino Ramelli publishes Le diverse et artificiose Machine del Capitano Agostino Ramelli, Dal Ponte Della Tresia Ingegniero del Christianissimo Re di Francia et di Pollonia in Paris, including a design for a bookwheel to permit consultation of ...
His 1613 book The Yong Mans Gleanings contains the first known use of the word "computer"; he used the word to refer to an "arithmetician". [ 3 ] An extract from both Drunken Barnaby and his “epitaph to Frances, (his wife)” appears in The Bishoprick Garland by (Sir) Cuthbert Sharp .
There is an English translation by Mary Stewart Evans, edited by Julia Sutton, in print with Dover Publications. It contains numerous woodcuts of dancers and musicians and includes many dance tabulations in which extensive instructions for the steps are lined up next to the musical notes, a significant innovation in dance notation at that time.
They wrote in English, and sought to demarcate surgeons from quacks. Others of a like mind were John Banester, William Clowes, Thomas Gale, and John Halle. [2] In 1588 Read published a composite work, based on a translation from a surgical text of Franciscus Arceus (Francisco Arceo, 1494–1575). [3] There are other elements.
1588–1589 – earliest probable date for the composition and first performance of Christopher Marlowe's The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus in London. 1589 13 April – an English Armada led by Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Norreys and largely financed by private investors sets sail to attack the Iberian Peninsula ...
1588 Blessed Edward Burden: 1540 1588 Blessed Edward Campion 1588 Blessed Edward James 1588 Blessed Edward Shelley 1588 Blessed Henry Webley: 1558 1588 Blessed Hugh More: 1563 1588 Blessed James Claxton 1588 Blessed John Robinson 1588 Blessed John Roche 1588 Blessed Nicholas Garlick: 1555 1588 Blessed Richard Flower 1588 Blessed Richard Leigh ...
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For a full timeline overview, see timeline of British history. There was no concept of "British history" in the 1500s, except that the word "British" was used to refer to the ancient Britons and the Welsh. This page presents a timeline of events in the history of England and Scotland from 1500 until 1599. 1509 England – Henry VIII crowned and married to Catherine of Aragon 1513 England and ...