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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
Age of Exploration
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Period: Nov 5, 1490 to
Commercial Revolution
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Aug 1, 1492
Christopher Columbus left Spain
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Oct 12, 1492
Christopher's ship landed in San Salvador
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Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
Nicolaus Copernicus
He began to abandon Ptolemy's geocentric theory. -
Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
Scientific discoveries were made throughout Europe
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Jan 1, 1543
Copernicus's theory published
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Jan 1, 1543
Vesalius published "On the Fabric of the Human Body"
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Rene Descartes is born
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Johannes Kepler published his laws of planetary motion
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Rene Descartes dies
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Boyle showed that temperture and pressure affect the space that a gas occupies
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Isaac Newton published a book building on the work of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo
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Priestly made his discovery of oxygen
