CHAPTER IX.

ON THE SCIENTIFIC AND MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE OF EUROPE

FROM 1520 TO 1550.

Geometrical Treatises 220

Fernel Rhœticus 220

Cardan and Tartaglia 220

Cubic Equations 220

Beauty of the Discovery 221

Cardan’s other Discoveries 221

Imperfections of Algebraic Language 222

Copernicus 222

Revival of Greek Medicine 223

Linacre and other Physicians 223

Medical Innovators 224

Paracelsus 224

Anatomy 224

Berenger 224

Vesalius 224

Portal’s Account of him 225

His Human Dissections 225

Fate of Vesalius 225

Other Anatomists 225

Imperfection of the Science 225

Botany--Botanical Gardens 226

Ruel 226

Fuchs 226

Matthioli 226

Low State of Zoology 226

Agricola 227

Hebrew 227

Elias Levita--Pellican 227

Arabic and Oriental Literature 227

Geography of Grynæus 228

Apianus 228

Munster 228

Voyages 228

Oviedo 228

Historical Works 228

Italian Academies 229

They pay regard to the Language 229

Their fondness for Petrarch 229

They become numerous 229

Their Distinctions 230

Evils connected with them 230

They succeed less in Germany 230

Libraries 230

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