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Feb 14, 1451
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus is born as is Amerigo -
Feb 20, 1462
Major puplication
One of the major publications of Renaissance natural philosophy, the Epitome of Ptolemy's Almagest appears; the authors, Georg Peurbach (1423-1461) and Johannes Regiomontanus (1436-1476), symbolize a shift from reverence for Ptolemy and antiquity to respect coupled with confident innovation. -
Feb 20, 1473
Nicolas Copernicus
(1473-1543) born. -
Feb 20, 1486
The hammer of the witches
The Malleus Malificarum (The Hammer of the Witches) is published as an influential guidebook to identifying witches and bringing them to punishment. -
Feb 20, 1545
Girolamo Cardano
in mathmatics The Great Art contained many algebraic innovations and new methods for treating equations of the third degree. -
thomas harriot
Thomas Harriot traveled to what is now called America -
Francois Viète
In mathematics, Francois Viète's, a brilliant work on analytic geometry by yet another man from Poitou. -
Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolph the second becomes the person of johanes, who thus becomes Imperial Math person
