I 4 2 



CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 



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



Augsburg. 



1532. Peru conquered by Pizarro. 



J 534- Society of Jesus founded by Loyola. 



I 539- Bock's New Kreutterbuch (without figures) ; 



2nd ed. (with figures) 1546. 



1542. Fuchs' Historia Stirpium. 



1543. Copernicus' De Revolutionibus Orbium Celestium. 



Vesalius' Fabrica Humani Corporis. 

 1545. Botanic garden at Padua founded. 



1545-1564. Council of Trent. 

 1547. Botanic garden at Pisa founded. 



Belon's Histoire Naturelle des estranges poissons 



marins. 



Gesner's Historia Animalium. 

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

 tions de plusieurs singularitez > etc. (Travels 

 in the Levant.) 



Rondelet's De piscibus marinis. 

 Belon's Histoire de la nature des Oyseaux. 

 Rondelet's Universes aquatilium Histories pars 

 altera. 



Shakespeare. 

 Galileo. 



Revolt of the Netherlands. 

 Battle of Lepanto (advance of the Turks 



checked). 

 Kepler. 



Massacre of St. Bartholomew. 

 L'Obel's Plantarum seu Stirpium Historia and 



A dversaria. 



Drake's circumnavigation. 

 I 583- 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. 



1553- 



1554- 

 1555- 



1564-1616. 

 1564-1642. 

 1566. 



1572- 

 1576. 



