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Christopher Columbus is born as is Amerigo
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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.
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(1473-1543) born.
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The Malleus Malificarum (The Hammer of the Witches) is published as an influential guidebook to identifying witches and bringing them to punishment.
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in mathmatics The Great Art contained many algebraic innovations and new methods for treating equations of the third degree.
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Thomas Harriot traveled to what is now called America
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In mathematics, Francois Viète's, a brilliant work on analytic geometry by yet another man from Poitou.
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The Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolph the second becomes the person of johanes, who thus becomes Imperial Math person
