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- Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (3639 bytes)
1: '''Francisco Vásquez de Coronado''' (ca. [[1510]] - [[September 22]],[[1554]])...
3: [[Image:Coronado expedition.jpg|thumb|500px|The Coronado Expedition 1540-1542.]]
7: ... city, called [[Cibola]]. Of course this raised Coronado's interest, and he decided to try to get that...
9: ...Sonora]], then traveled upstream the Sonora, and crossed the [[Gila]] to Cibola, in the west of presen...
11: ...who would be shipping supplies for Coronado. [[Pedro de Tovar]] was sent northwest, and heard of a gre... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: ...to return [[England]] from [[Protestantism]] to [[Roman Catholicism]]. To this end, she had almost thr...
10: ...cotland|Mary I, Queen of Scots]], who lived at approximately the same time.
13: ...y disappointed that his wife had again failed to produce a healthy son; Catherine's sixth and last chi...
17: ... with England. A marriage treaty was signed; it provided that the Princess Mary should marry either F...
19: ...with the [[Roman Catholic Church]]. All appeals from the decisions of English ecclesiastical courts t... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ...Queen of Scots,''' was the ruler of [[Scotland]] from [[December 14]], [[1542]] – [[July 24]], [...
9: ...y I of England]] ("Bloody Mary"), who lived at approximately the same time ([[1516]] – [[1558]])...
14: ...that parliamentary act, because the legitimacy of Robert's children of first marriage were questionabl...
15: ...ed the throne because all other male lines of the royal house had gone extinct before the death of Mar...
17: ... of the Stewarts' reign over Scotland. Instead, through Mary's son, it was the beginning of their reig... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...gland]] and [[King of Ireland|Queen of Ireland]] from [[17 November]] [[1558]] until her death. Someti...
9: ... VIII]], she was a writer and poet. She granted [[Royal Charter]]s to several famous organizations, in...
11: ...he number of [[Privy Council|Privy Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to fourteen.
16: ...the [[English Act of Succession|Act of Succession 1544]].
18: Elizabeth's first governess was Lady Bryan, a baroness whom Elizabeth called "Muggie". At the age of... - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
2: ...ce music|Renaissance]]. He was the most famous European composer between [[Guillaume Dufay]] and [[Gi...
6: ...]. In the later [[1490s]] he was in [[France]], probably in the service of [[Louis XII of France|Loui...
8: ...letters in the Duke's name. While there he also wrote a setting of the [[Miserere]], Psalm 50, for fi...
10: ...-day border between Belgium and France, becoming provost of the cathedral there. During this time he ...
14: ...psed after the beginning of the [[Baroque music|Baroque]] era, with the decline of the polyphonic styl... - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
7: ...of German descent, remembered for the [[Mercator projection]] named after him.
9: ... of italic script to be published in northern [[Europe]].
11: ...6thcentury.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Mercator map of Europe]]
12: ...Wilhelm of Cleve]] in [[1564]]. He devised a new projection and first used it in [[1569]]; it had para...
15: ...[[Ptolemy]] (though introducing a number of new errors). Maps of [[France]], [[Germany]] and the [[Net... - Francisco Coronado (5090 bytes)
1: '''Francisco Vásquez de Coronado''' (ca. [[1510]] - [[September 22]],[[1554]])...
5: ...]. Coronado's friend, Antonio Mendoza appointed Coronado as the commander of an expedition to go and f...
8: ...ora]], then traveled upstream on the Sonora, and crossed the [[Gila]] to Cibola, in the west of presen...
10: ...ers in one of them, [[Tiguex]] (across the river from present-day [[Bernalillo]] near [[Albuquerque, N...
12: ... not even small amounts of gold could be found. Coronado returned to Tiguex, where his main force had ... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
15: *[[Robert Adrain]] (Ireland)
18: *[[Ahmes]] (Egypt, roughly around [[17th century BC]])
21: *[[al-Marrakushi ibn Al-Banna]] (Morocco, [[1256]] - [[1321]])
24: *[[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] (France, [[1717]] - [[1783]])
25: *[[Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov]] (Russia, [[1912]] - [[1999]]) - History of science in the Middle Ages (30877 bytes)
2: ...ough the term 'Middle Ages' usually refers to [[European history]], scientific advances in the [[Easte...
4: ...s and summaries that were often corrupted in the process of copying and [[translation|translating]]. N...
11: [[Image:Silos-Claustro.jpg|thumb|left|In the Early Middle Ages, cultural...
14: ...t was left of intellectual strength, especially through [[monasticism]].
16: ...pretation. Given the limited scientific advances from about [[476]] to about [[1000]], this period cam... - Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (19760 bytes)
3: [[Image:Coronado-Remington.jpg|thumb|right|Coronado Sets Out to the North, by [[Frederic Remingto...
5: ...estern [[United States]] between 1540 and 1542. Coronado had hoped to conquer the mythical [[Seven Cit...
7: ==Background==
8: ...ta Rica]]. <ref> [http://genforum.genealogy.com/coronado/messages/30.html Origin of Vázquez de
9: Coronado family] </ref> - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
2: ...arge portions of mainland [[Mexico]] under the [[Crown of Castile|King of Castile]], in the early 16th...
4: ...ile the more prestigious title of [[New Spain|Viceroy]] was given to a high-ranking nobleman, [[Antoni...
6: Because of the controversial undertakings of Cortés and the scarcity o...
14: ... of [[Rodrigo de Monroy y Almaraz, 5th Lord of Monroy]], and wife Mencía de Orellana y Carvajal.
16: ...tings and actions suggest he studied [[Law]] and probably [[Latin language|Latin]]. - Realdo Colombo (996 bytes)
1: ...] and a surgeon at the University of [[Padua]] ([[1544]]-[[1559]]). He was a pupil of [[Vesalius]] and h...
3: ...in which he corrected some of the omissions and errors of his master.
7: ...owed that the [[lens (vision)|lens]] lies to the front of the [[eye]]ball, not in the centre
10: ...at blood flows from the right side of the heart through the [[lung]]s - Padua (12961 bytes)
1: [[Image:Mar04565.JPG|thumb|280px|Tronco Maestro Riviera: a pedestrian walk along a section of the...
2: ...s branches of the [[Bacchiglione]], which once surrounded the ancient walls like a [[moat]].
7: ...o' Miretto]] and [[Stefano da Ferrara]], working from [[1425]] to [[1440]].
9: ...ith its great door, the work of [[Falconetto of Verona]], [[1532]].
11: ...cast in [[1453]], the first full-size equestrian bronze cast since antiquity. - Atlas (cartography) (4308 bytes)
3: ... found in [[multimedia]] formats, such as on [[CD-ROM]]. As well as [[geographic]] features and [[poli...
5: ==Atlases throughout history==
9: ...e constructed by [[medieval]] [[Greek]] scholars from Ptolemy's text.
11: ...works. Although the term atlas was not in use in 1544, these works are now called "IATO" atlases - (Ita...
21: ...apetus]] and [[Clymene]] (or Asia), brother of [[Prometheus]]. Atlas was punished by [[Zeus]] and made...
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