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He was born as Ma He in 1371. Zheng He voyaged a century before his European explorer counterparts to places such as Sri Lanka, Melaka, Calicut and the Philippines.
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Fillipo Brunolleschi was born in Genoa in 1377. He was famous for designing the Brunollechi dome and restoring Medici honor. His dome design is copied all over the world.
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Sandro Botticheli was famous for many things, including perspective art. The name Botticheli was given by his goldsmith, meaning little barrel.
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Brunolleschi died in Florence, in 1446.
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Christopher Columbus was a European explorer who was looking for a route to the Spice Islands. Instead, he found the Americas. He made 4 voyages between 1492 and 1504.
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Galileo was famous for his heliocentric theory and also a number of other discoveries and ideas, such as that ice floats on water and also pointing a telescope to the skies and seeing Saturn.
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Galileo Galilei dies at 70 in, Arcetri, near modern day Florence.
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Sir Isaac Newton, was born on Christmas day in 1642, in Woolsthrope, England. He is famous for discovering and recognizing gravity by seeing an apple fall off his tree from the room window.
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Sir Isaac Newton dies on London at age of 85.