#c16th — Public Fediverse posts

🔴 📖 **“I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer”: Letters on Love and Marriage from the World’s First Personal Advice Column**

“_A fascinating collection of questions and answers—about courtship, marriage, love, and sex—from a seventeenth-century periodical_”

🔗 https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691253992/i-humbly-beg-your-speedy-answer.

#C16th #16thCentury #Nonfiction #Read #Book #Bookstodon @bookstodon

🔴 🇵🇹 🇬🇧 **An Unknown History Of Portugal (c 1570) In William Cecil's Library: Commissioning And Writing History During the Elizabethan Era**

_“The manuscript is in a mid-sixteenth-century hand and has personal annotations by William Cecil (1520–98), better known as Lord Burghley. It recounts the history of Portugal by reigns and belonged to Cecil’s personal library. Until now, no other extant example of a history of Portugal written in English in the sixteenth century was known.”_

Lowe, K. and Vila-Santa, N. (2024) ‘AN UNKNOWN HISTORY OF PORTUGAL (c 1570) IN WILLIAM CECIL’S LIBRARY: COMMISSIONING AND WRITING HISTORY DURING THE ELIZABETHAN ERA’, The Antiquaries Journal, pp. 1–29. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581524000167.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #C16th #16thCentury #Culture #History #UK #UnitedKingdom #Portugal #Histodon #Histodons #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons

The #C16th, where you get your dream job as town pastor

… and then die 6 weeks later of the #plague

Johanness Zweck, (briefly) pastor of Bischofszell, Switzerland, 1542

🔴 François de Foix de Candalle: Euclidean authorship in the sixteenth century

“Despite Foix’s stated intention to ‘restore’ the text he – ironically – enjoyed an unusual success as a Euclidean author: few other writers, if any, in his or the succeeding century inserted into Euclid’s Elements new material of such bulk and longevity.”

Wardhaugh, B. (2024) ‘François de Foix de Candalle: Euclidean authorship in the sixteenth century’, British Journal for the History of Mathematics, pp. 1–16. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/26375451.2024.2384819.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #History #C16th #16thCentury #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Geometry #Euclid #HistSci #Academia #Academic #Academics

#WordOfTheDay: hecatomb (n.)

"1590s, from Latinized form of Greek hekatombe, properly (and literally) "offering of 100 oxen," but generally "a great public sacrifice." It is a compound of hekaton "one hundred," which perhaps is dissimilation of *hem-katon, with hen, neuter of heis "one" + *katon "hundred." The second element is bous "ox" (from PIE root *gwou- "ox, bull, cow"). The first month of the Attic calendar (corresponding to July-August) was Hekatombaion, in which sacrifices were made."

#Citation: Harper Douglas, “Etymology of hecatomb,” Online Etymology Dictionary, accessed April 13, 2024, https://www.etymonline.com/word/hecatomb.

#Word #Words #Etymology #Lexicon #Dictionary #C16th #16thCentury #Latin #Greek #English #Language #Languages

"The modus operandi of men like Hawkins was to sail to Guinea, acquire a cargo of enslaved people, by force and/or barter, and ship them to the Spanish Caribbean and Mexico.91 Here, Hawkins would claim inclement weather had forced him to the area (a tactic used by many illicit traders), offer platitudes to local officials and sometimes promise to help clear out foreign pirates from the area.92 In return, he asked the Spanish to purchase his enslaved people. If that failed, he became aggressive, after which the local elites, often under-manned and in relatively lightly defended settlements, would agree to purchase his human cargo."

Gary Paul Baker, Craig Lambert, ‘William Fowler’, Sir William Garrard, Sir John Hawkins and the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic Slave Trade, The English Historical Review, 2024;, cead213, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead213 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #England #Spain #Atlantic #Slavery #SirJohnHawkins #Europe #Africa #C16th #16thCentury #EarlyModern #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @earlymodern

"Admiral Medina Sidonia's flagship 'San Martin' is attacked off the coast of Dover from port by the English 'Rainbow' and from starboard by the Dutch 'Golden Lion', Dover, August 8, 1588. Admiral Medina Sidonia aka Cadiz." #History #Marine #Art #Painting #EarlyModern #Europe #Holland #Spain #England #C16th #16thCentury #PublicDomain #Wikicommons @earlymodern

#Image attribution: Aert Anthoniszoon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Slag_bij_Cadix_Rijksmuseum_SK-A-1367.jpeg

#WordOfTheDay: ephor (n.)

Spartan magistrate, 1580s, from Greek ephoros "overseer," from epi- "over" (see epi-) + horan "to see," which is possibly from PIE root *wer- (3) "perceive, watch out for."

#Citation: Harper Douglas, “Etymology of ephor,” Online Etymology Dictionary, accessed March 2, 2024, https://www.etymonline.com/word/ephor.

#English #Greek #Sparta #Language #Languages #Word #Words #Etymology #Dictionary #Lexicon #C16th #16thCentury

"This article studies how northern European migrants adapted their collective strategies to Seville’s institutional framework in the last third of the sixteenth century and how these strategies shaped the emergence of the so-called Flemish and German nation."

Jiménez Montes, G. (2022) “The Flemish and German Nation of Seville: Collective Strategies and Institutional Development of the Northern European Merchant Community in Seville, Spain (1568-1598)”, TSEG - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, 19(1), pp. 37–60. doi: https://doi.org/10.52024/tseg.11456 #Research #Article #Germany #German #Flanders #Flemish #Seville #Spain #Europe #History #Histodon #Histodons #Economics #HistoryOfEconomics #Migration #Migrants #EarlyModern #C16th #16thCentury #Academia #Academic #Academics #DOI @histodon @histodons @historyofeconomics @earlymodern

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"The diplomatic negotiations undertaken by the English select councillors and their Spanish and Flemish counterparts place England firmly within the conciliar framework of the Spanish Monarchy and provide an invaluable window from which to explore the role of England as a fully integrated member of a composite monarchy extending from Naples and Oran to Lima and Mexico City."

Gonzalo Velasco Berenguer, The Select Council of Philip I: A Spanish Institution in Tudor England, 1555–1558, The English Historical Review, 2024;, cead216, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead216 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #England #Spain #C16th #16thCentury #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons

"This article is an attempt to characterize part of the information that circulated in this transitional period through a comparative examination of Portuguese nautical instructions and Arabic navigational treatises, focusing specifically on the stars used for latitude measurements."

Bénard Inês (2022) ‘The stars in sixteenth-century nautical literature: a comparative study’. Zenodo. doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6985465 #Article #Science #STEM #History #Histodon #Histodons #HistSci #HistoryOfScience #C16th #16thCentury #EarlyModern #Academia #Academic #Academics @earlymodern @histodon @histodons

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 "Hand-drawn map of England and Wales by Christopher Saxton in 1579." #Map #Maps #Atlas #Cartography #England #Wales #Europe #History #Histodon #Histodons #C16th #16thCentury #PublicDomain @histodon @histodons

Attribution: Christopher Saxton, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anglia_Atlas.jpg

Becchi, Antonio, Meli, Domenico Bertoloni and Gamba, Enrico (eds.) (2013). Guidobaldo del Monte (1545–1607): Theory and Practice of the Mathematical Disciplines from Urbino to Europe. Berlin: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften. DOI: https://doi.org/10.34663/9783945561218-00 #History #EarlyModern #C16th #16thCentury #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Science #Italy #Europe @science @earlymodern

"This paper demonstrates that the highly accurate depiction of the Indian Ocean on the Carta marina of Martin Waldseemueller from 1516 is mainly caused by the extremely powerful political and economic interests of the Portuguese Crown and the Upper German-trading companies in the conflict with the Kingdom of Castile over supremacy in the spice trade in India."

Martin Lehmann | Peter Stanley Fosl (Reviewing editor) (2020) The Carta Marina of Martin Waldseemüller from 1516 – political geography in context of the struggle for the spices of Southeast India, Cogent Arts & Humanities, 7:1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2020.1741983 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #History #Map #Maps #Cartography #Economics #Trade #Portugal #India #C16th #16thCentury #Europe #Asia #EarlyModern @historyofeconomics @earlymodern

Allison Steenson, Leonico Tomeo’s Marginalia: Manuscript and Print in Sixteenth-Century Veneto, The Library, Volume 24, Issue 3, September 2023, Pages 318–331, https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpad030 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #C16th #16thCentury #Medieval #Incunable #Library @medievodons

Allison Steenson, Leonico Tomeo’s Marginalia: Manuscript and Print in Sixteenth-Century Veneto, The Library, Volume 24, Issue 3, September 2023, Pages 318–331, https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpad030 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #C16th #16thCentury #Medieval #Incunable #Library @medievodons

Allison Steenson, Leonico Tomeo’s Marginalia: Manuscript and Print in Sixteenth-Century Veneto, The Library, Volume 24, Issue 3, September 2023, Pages 318–331, https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpad030 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #C16th #16thCentury #Medieval #Incunable #Library @medievodons

Allison Steenson, Leonico Tomeo’s Marginalia: Manuscript and Print in Sixteenth-Century Veneto, The Library, Volume 24, Issue 3, September 2023, Pages 318–331, https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpad030 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #C16th #16thCentury #Medieval #Incunable #Library @medievodons

A D Curry, King Arthur of England, count of Habsburg: the use of Arthurian imagery in Habsburg diplomacy, Historical Research, 2023;, htad018, https://doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htad018 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #England #Britain #British #UK #UnitedKingdom #C16th #16thCentury #Europe #Habsburg #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons

Angela Axworthy. "The Hybridization of Practical and Theoretical Geometry in the Sixteenth-Century Euclidean Tradition." (2023) V.11 N.22 (2022): Hybridization in the History of Ideas; Geoanthropology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13135/2280-8574/7333 #Journal #Article #Science #C16th #16thCentury #Renaissance #Geometry #History #Histodon #Histodons #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @science

Fernel, J. (2003). The Physiologia of Jean Fernel (1567). United States: American Philosophical Society. https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Physiologia_of_Jean_Fernel_1567/Ax0LAAAAIAAJ #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Ebook #Ebooks #Reading #Medicine #C16th #16thCentury #Physiology #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons @bookstodon

Septentrionalium Terrarum descriptio. Per Gerardum Mercatorem Cum Privilegio : Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/dr_septentrionalium-terrarum-descriptio-per-gerardum-mercatorem-cum-privilegi-10805001 ~via @internetarchive #Map #Maps #MapHistory #History #Histodon #Histodons #Cartography #C16th #17thcentury @histodon @histodons

Martin Waldseemüller's world map, including inset maps of Ptolemy's Old World and Amerigo Vespucci's account of the New World. 1507. #Map #Maps #MapHistory #History #World #C16th #16thcentury #Histodon #Histodons #Image #Cartography @histodon @histodons

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waldseem%C3%BCller_world_map_1508.jpg

Attribution: Ptolemy & al., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

(Composite map of) Tavola 1-60. (Map of the World) (with additional spheres and labels in the four corners). : Monte (Monti), Urbano, 1544-1613 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/dr_composite-map-of-tavola-1-60-map-of-the-world-with-additional-spheres-10130087 ~via @internetarchive

#Map #Maps #MapHistory #History #Histodon #Histodons #Cartography #C16th #16thcentury #World #Atlas @histodon @histodons

Britannicarum Insularum Typus. Ex conatibus Geographicis Abrah. Ortelij. Cum privileg. decen. 1595. : Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/dr_britannicarum-insularum-typus-ex-conatibus-geographicis-abrah-ortelij-cu-10001353 via @internetarchive

#Map #Maps #MapHistory #History #Histodon #Histodons #Cartography #C16th #16thcentury #Britain #UnitedKingdom #UK #GreatBritain #GB @histodon @histodons

Carta Marina Nvova Tavola. Carta Marina O'Da navigare. (To accompany) La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino, nuouamente tradotta di Greco in Italiano, da Girolamo Ruscelli ... In Venetia, Appresso Vincenzo Valgrisi, M.D.LXI. (1561). : Ptolemy, Claudius : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/dr_carta-marina-nvova-tavola-carta-marina-oda-navigare-to-accompany-la-ge-11311135 via @internetarchive

#Map #Maps #MapHistory #History #Histodon #Histodons #Cartography #C16th #16thcentury #World #Atlas #Chart @histodon @histodons

'Plan of London (circa 1560 to 1570)', in Agas Map of London 1561 ([s.l.], 1633), British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/london-map-agas/1561/map [accessed 12 July 2023]. #Map #History #Histodon #Histodons #Cartography #C16th #16thcentury #London #Britain #UK #MapHistory @histodon @histodons

Jennifer M. Rampling. "John Dee and the sciences: early modern networks of knowledge." Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 43.3 (2012) 432-436. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2011.12.001 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Histodon #Histodon #EarlyModern #Philosophy #Science #C16th #16thcentry #C17th #17thcentury @histodon @histodons @philosophy @science

"Some of the styles found in the book include gothic textura, round gothic, round humanistic, as well as the unusual inclusion of letters and texts from Greek and Hebrew script." https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/16th-century-pattern-book-for-scribes #Writing #Book #C16th #Images #Mauscripts

Source: https://twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1664357848552206336

"The content of Yny lhyvyr hwnn reflects the author's interest, especially his desire, arising from his belief in the need for reform in religion, to ensure that ordinary people learnt the basic tenets of the Christian faith." https://www.library.wales/discover-learn/digital-exhibitions/printed-material/yny-lhyvyr-hwnn #Welsh #book #books #bookstodon #history #histodons #histodon #c16th @bookstodon @histodon @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/NLWales/status/1663451258781409280

"Richard Hooker defends the religious and political settlement of Elizabethan England using rational arguments and appeals to the natural law." https://www.historyofphilosophy.net/richard-hooker #History #Philosophy #Podcast #England #English #C16th #histodons #histodon @histodons @histodon @philosophy

Source: https://twitter.com/HistPhilosophy/status/1662721235673858049

"...a German artist, mathematician, and cartographer known primarily for his etchings." https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hirschvogel-s-geometria-1543 #Images #Geometry #C16th #Maths

Source: https://twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1662183813412265984