i 4 2 CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 



1530-1536. Brunfels' Herbarum viva eicones. Confession of 



Augsburg-. 



1532. Peru conquered by Pizarro. 



1534. Society of Jesus founded by Loyola. 



1539. Bock's New Kreutterbuch (without figures) ; 



2nd ed. (with figures) 1546. 



1542. Fuchs' Historia Stirpium. 



1543. Copernicus' De Revolutionibus Orbium Celestium. 



Vesalius' Fabrica Humani Carports. 



1545. Botanic garden at Padua founded. 



1545-1564. Council of Trent. 



1547. Botanic garden at Pisa founded. 



1551. Belon's Histoire Naturelle des estranges poissons 



inarms. 



1551-1587. Gesner's Historia Animalium. 



I 553- Belon's De aquatilibus, etc., and his Observa- 



tions de plusieurs singularitez, etc. (Travels 

 in the Levant.) 



X 554- Rondelet's De piscibus marinis. 



J 555- Belon's Histoire de la nature des Oyseaux. 



Rondelet's Universes aquatilium Historice pars 

 alt era. 



1564-1616. Shakespeare. 



1564-1642. Galileo. 



1566. Revolt of the Netherlands. 



1571. Battle of Lepanto (advance of the Turks 



checked). 

 1571-1630. Kepler. 



1572. Massacre of St. Bartholomew. 



1576. L'Obel's Plantarum seu Stirpium Historia and 



A dversaria. 



1577-1580. Drake's circumnavigation. 



1583. Cesalpini's De Plantis. 



1588. The Invincible Armada. 



1596-1650. Descartes. 



1600. Olivier de Serres' Theatre d' Agriculture. 



1601. Clusius' Rariorum plantarum Historia. 

 1605. Clusius' Exoticorum libri decem. 



