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	Faust Vrančić - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Faust Vrančić (1551, Šibenik - January 17, 1617, Venice), also known as Faust Verantius, was a humanist, philosopher, historian, lexicographer, and inventor.
		Multilingual Dictionarium septem diversarum linguarum by Peterus Lodereckerus of Prague in 1605 in Latin, Italian, Bohemian, Polish, German, Hungarian, Dalmatian.
		The author edited the second edition of Vrancic's work and renamed the Dalmatian language for the first time into "Croatian".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Faust_Vrancic (903 words)

	Croatia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Faust Vran i is registered as a local NGO with the county of _ibenik and with the Central Bureau of Statistics.
		Faust Vrancic is one of the few local Croation NGOs to have a yearly audit of their books.
		Although the Faust Vrancic organisation does not currently have funds to contribute for credit, they are willing to conduct fund raising if the credit program starts to help find matching funds in years two and three.
	www.undp.org /sum/sum_reports/Country_Reports/croatiadb2.html (8987 words)

	Tourist board Vodice \| Island Prvic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Faust Vrancic was born in Sibenik in 1551.
		Faust was the author of the first printed Croatian dictionary.
		Machinae novae (1595) is a very important work of Faust Vrančić in which the author presents 56 different inventions, constructions, and technical solutions on 49 copperplates with relating descriptions.
	www.vodice.hr /en/index.php?id=6 (471 words)

	otok Prvic - Faust Vrancic
		The gravestone was recently renovated, and there are plans of putting up a bronze bust of Faust in the church garden.
		There is a need to show the island's connection to Faust Vrančić, as a great man of both Croatian and Europaean history.
		For example, one year there was a model of Faust's parachute on display in Prvić Luka.
	www.prvic.netfirms.com /Efaust.htm (155 words)

	Croats at European universities in Middle Ages, Latinists, Encyclopaedists
		Faust Vrancic (or Faust Verantius, 1551-1617) from Sibenik was the author of a five language dictionary "Dictionarium quinque nobilissimarum Europeae linguarum: Latinae, Italicae, Germanicae, Dalmaticae et Hungaricae" (Venice, 1595), with more than 5000 words (i.e.
		Faust Vrancic considered that the Dalmatian language was the most beutiful among Slavic languages, and that it was spoken from Adriatic sea to rivers of Drava and Danube.
		Faust Vrancic was a chancellor on the Court of king Rudolph II in Prague (Hradcany) from 1581 to 1594, where also a famous musician Adrian de Vries, astronomer Tycho Brache, mathematician and astrologer Johannes Kepler were present.
	www.hr /darko/etf/lat.html (10835 words)

	Did you know \| Croatia > Adriatic > Dalmatia > Sibenik-Knin County
		Faust Vrancic, author of well-known book Machinae novae (New machines) and parachute inventor, was born in Sibenik.
		Faust Vrancic (1551-1594) is the author of the famous piece Machinae Novae (New Machines), one of the greatest European minds, multi historian, philosopher, inventor and lexicographer, also a man who published the first dictionary of Croatian language and constructed the first usable parachute.
		New Machines by Vrancic were printed in Venice in 1595; while the second edition was published in Venice in 1605.
	www.infoadriatic.com /did_you_know_04.shtml (1544 words)

	Grad Šibenik - City library
		The library organizes a range of different cultural programs (exhibitions, book signings, lectures, and scientific meetings), also it is involved in publishing, which promotes contemporary art and the research of Šibenik's literature and cultural heritage.
		A number of titles have been published (66), among them are monographs about the Šibenik County and the cathedral, a variety of almanacs, pieces of work by linguists, inventors, philosophers, creative thinkers, and the writer-historian Faust Vrančić.
		Right of the entrance is a part of the children's section with the according literature and a room for material that is based on Šibenik and its region.
	www.sibenik.hr /vodic-eng/kultura/gradska_knjiznica.asp (571 words)

	History of Croatian Science
		Vrancic was fluent in at least seven languages.
		Vrancic also constructed a mill driven by tides, ropeway, gave a new construction of metal bridges (suspended by iron chains, i.e.
		Vrancic was the Chancellor of king Rudolph II for Hungary and Transylvania.
	www.croatianhistory.net /etf/et22.html (11596 words)

	Faust Vrancic -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Faust Vrancic -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The author edited the second edition of Vrancic's work and renamed the Dalmatian language for the first time into " (A member of the Slavic people living in Croatia) Croatian".
		The sensational book was soon translated into Italian, (The Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain) Spanish, (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French and (A person of German nationality) German.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/F/Fa/Faust_Vrancic.htm (706 words)

	Personal Page of Vedran Ivan Jukic
		I'm proud to say that my mother is decendant of very famous Croatian family Vrancic, which helped created history of Europe.
		You can see Faust Vrancic parachute in Sibenik Museum in his "Machinae Novae", and not only that...
		National Park Krka and Kornati are very close to Sibenik where Vrancic's had lived for centuries.
	www.geocities.com /vedran99611/VedranIvanJukicVrancic.html (577 words)

	FAUST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Search the FAUST Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
		Search the FAUST Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
		Find graves of people named FAUST at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
	www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/F/FAUST.htm (73 words)

	Parachute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Faust Vrancic performed a jump with his parachute somewhere in Venice in order to test it.
		This fact is explicitely stated in a book written by English bishop John Willkins (1614-1672), secretary of the Royal Society in London, only 30 years after the jump.
		The title of his book which contains this important testimony about Faust Vrancic is Mathematical Magic of the Wonders that may be Performed by Mechanical Geometry, part I: Concerning Mechanical Powers Motion, part II, Deadloss or Mechanical Motions, published in London in 1648.
	www.croatians.com /parachute_invention__faust_vranc.htm (96 words)

	Croatian trivia - Parachute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Vrancic also constructed the mill driven by tides, gave a new construction of metal bridges described in his famous book on mechanics ``Machinae novae'' (61 constructions, Venice, 1595), that was soon translated from Latin into Italian, Spanish, French and German.
		A sketch of his well known Homo volans (parachutist) appearing in ``Machinae novae'' is often attributed to Leonardo in the literature, which is wrong.
		Vrancic was a Chancellor of king Rudolph II for Hungary and Transilvania.
	www.okruk.com /parachute.html (120 words)

	faust - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Faust : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
		Faust (1 syl.) : Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
		Phrases that include faust: chris faust, damnation of faust, faust verantius, faust vrancic, granny faust, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=faust&loc=resrd (204 words)

	Technical Museum Zagreb
		Polyhistorian, lexicographer, and inventor Faust Vrancic (Sibenik, 1551 - Venice, 1617), who was educated in Italy, became a bishop of Canad, after which he was staying in Rome, and finally, until his death, in Venice.
		He is the author of a five-language dictionary (publ.
		Among them, we may single out the model of an arched bridge, a mill driven by tides, and particularly the parachute which he even tested by jumping off towers and cliffs in Hungary and Italy.
	www.mdc.hr /tehnicki/en/07-velikani/07-velikani-park2.htm (134 words)

	Croatia Exhibition Prvic by Photo Croatia - 1185 Photos of Croatia, Croatia Hrvatska Prvic Photos of Prvic Photo ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Prvic Luka is a place on the island of Prvic which is situated in front of the town of Sibenik, and belongs to the Sibenik Archipelago.
		This small place, inhabited from the 15th century is the home of the famous Faust Vrancic, the world-known constructor of the parachute.
		The vicinity of the land on the one hand and the Sibenik islands on the other makes Prvic Luka an attractive summer resort and one of those places for which it is said that they have a "soul".
	www.photocroatia.com /GALLERY/list.php?exhibition=138 (326 words)

	Istria on the Internet - Flora & Fauna- Bottleneck Dolphins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The first mention of the Mediterranean monk seal in the written Croatian language is to be found in a poem by Mavro Vetranovic Cavcic, 1482-1576, (Vetranovic Cavcic, 1871), who described Mediterranean monk seals on the small island of Sveti Andrija (Fig.
		The first formal mention of the dolphin appeared in 1595 in a dictionary compiled by Faust Vrancic (1595).
		Vrancic, F. (1595): Dictionarivm qvinqve nobilissimarvm Europae lingvarvm, Latinae, Italicae, Germanicae, Dalmatiae, and Vngaricae.
	www.istrianet.org /istria/fauna/dolphins/dolphin-eng.htm (6098 words)

	United Nations Capital Development Fund
		There is one local NGO Faust Vran i based in ibenik.
		Faust Vran i is registered as a local NGO with the county of ibenik and with the Central Bureau of Statistics.
		While there is an interest in developing local credit institutions, with the exceptions of Faust Vrancic & LDCs there is a dramatic lack of local associations or structures and know how to undertake creation of local credit institutions in a Grameen bank or credit union model.
	www.uncdf.org /english/microfinance/documents_and_reports/country_feasibility/croatiadb2.php (9227 words)

	Dubrovnik.org » Croatia - winner on the Lonely Planet list of world top destinations in 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One of the greatest world travelers, Marco Polo, was born in 1254 on the island of Korcula, Croatia.
		That the inventor of the first parachute, Faust Vrancic, was born in Sibenik, Croatia in 1551.
		The theater on the Croatian island of Hvar, built in 1612, is among oldest in Europe.
	www.dubrovnik.org /20050218/budapest-sun (494 words)

	Distributed by CroatianWorld
		Nikola Tesla who was born in Smiljane, Lika in 1856.
		Faust Vrancic born in Sibenik in 1551, and has invented the parachute.
		Nikola Tesla, one of greatest inventors of all times, gave his name to tesla unit of magnetic induction in the metre-kilogram-second system of physical units.
	www.croatianworld.net /Letters/2808.htm (569 words)

	Quo vadis putovanja Sibenik
		At the end of the First World War it was occupied by Italy but was returned to the parent country under the Treaty of Rapallo (1920).
		- Sibenik is the birthplace of three humanists: Juraj Sizgoric (around 1420- 1509), Antun Vrancic (1504-1573) and Faust Vrancic (1551-1617), of the writer Nikola Tommaseo (1802-1874) and many others.
		The cathedral located in Sibenik, the Cathedral of Saint Jakov, is a three-aisled basilica with three apses and a cupola (interior height 32 m).
	www.quo-vadis-travel.com /sibenikk.htm (1511 words)

	Island Prvic - Croatia, Dalmatia accomodation offer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A summer house of noble Draganic-Vrancic famili is situatedthere.
		In it a family crest and portrait of Faust Vrancic a scientist, historian, and diplomat in Hubsburg empire is kept.
		Village itself has remained almost unchanged and offers history tour advanture thet can rarely be found.
	www.dalmatianet.com /_destination/island-prvic (169 words)

	CROATIAN SCHOOL PROJECT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		His kingdom helped Serbia to defend itself against the Bulgarians.
		Faust Vrancic from Sibenik (1551-1617) in his book “Machinae novae”, described and illustrated for the first time ever what we know as a parachute.
		Nikola Tesla, invented the Tesla coil and high frequency generator
	www.cardinalstepinacvillage.com /didyouknow.htm (257 words)

	Croatia - Great Britain
		It is very likely due to her acquaintance with Kunic that the first translation of a Croatian poem into English arose (a poem by Ignjat Gjurgjevic, translated into English from its Latin translation).
		Vrancic also described in his book Machinae Novae the first wind turbine.
		In the Library of Congress, Washington, a symposium was held devoted to his work.
	www.croatianhistory.net /etf/brit.html (12211 words)

	TrekEarth \| Cathedral Sibenik Photo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It should be noted that the city of Sibenik was built in the time of King Kresimir IV (11th century).
		First on the right is a drawing appearing in Faust Vrancic's book Machinae Novae (Venice, 1595).
		Only registered TrekEarth members may rate photo notes.
	www.trekearth.com /gallery/Europe/photo105762.htm (184 words)

	(E) CROATIAN INVENTIONS, December 07, 2004
		His most interesting invention was, certainly, a parachute or "Homo volans"
		(The Flying Man) as called by Vrancic himself.
		The title of his book which contains this important testimony about Faust Vrancic is
	www.croatianworld.net /Letters/4892.htm (1223 words)

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