142 CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 



1 530-1 536. Brunfels' Herharum vivcB eicones. Confession of 



Augsburg. 

 1532. Peru conquered by PIzarro. 



1534. Society of Jesus founded by Loyola. 



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



2nd ed. (with figures) 1546. 

 1542. Fuclis' Historia Stirpium. 



1543- Copernicus' Z>^ Revolutionihus Orhium Celestium. 



Vesalius' Fahrica Humani Corporis. 

 1545. Botanic garden at Padua founded. 



1 545-1 564. Council of Trent. 

 1547. Botanic garden at Pisa founded. 



1 55 1. Belon's Histoire Naturelle des estranges potssons 



marins. 

 1 55 i-i 587. Gesner's Historia A nimaJium. 

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



tions de plusieurs singularitez, etc. (Travels 



in the Levant.) 

 1554* Rondelet's De piscihus marinis. 



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



Rondelet's Universes aquatilium HistoricB pars 



altera. 

 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. 



1 577-1 580. Drake's circumnavigation. 



1583. Cesalpini's De Plantis. 



1588. The Invincible Armada. 



1 596-1650. Descartes. 



1600. Olivier de Serres' Thddtre d^ Agriculture. 



1601. Clusius' Rariorum plantarum Historia, 

 1605, Clusius' Exoticorum libri decern. 



