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Feb 19, 1462
Publications of Renaissance
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Feb 19, 1473
Nicolas Copernicus born
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May 20, 1531
Juan Luis Vives
Juan Luis Vives in his On the Disciplines argues for the reform of education and a more receptive approach to skills traditionally associated with the craft and trade traditions. -
Jan 23, 1540
Georg Joachim Rheticus
Georg Joachim Rheticus, a friend of Copernicus and the presumed author, provides an account of the heliocentric hypothesis in his Narratio prima (First Account). -
Feb 20, 1545
The Great Art
In mathematics, Girolamo Cardano's The Great Art contained many algebraic innovations and new methods for treating equations of the third degree. -
Aug 11, 1559
Renaissance anatomist
A noted Renaissance anatomist, Realdo Colombo's De re anatomica (On Anatomy) treats pulmonary circulation of the blood, and like Vesalius, argues against a number of conclusions put forward by the ancient anatomist, Galen -
Oct 27, 1561
Gabriele Falloppio
Gabriele Falloppio announces his discovery of the fallopian tubes in his Anatomical Observations. -
Feb 16, 1564
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei born at Pisa, Italy, February 16 -
Feb 18, 1564
Michelangelo
Michelangelo Buonarroti dies at Florence, 18 February -
Apr 23, 1564
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare born in England, 23 April -
Feb 20, 1582
Calender change
Pope Gregory XIII suggested reform of the Julian calendar, thus leading much of Catholic Europe away from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian -
Proposes the use of decimals
In mathematics, Simon Stevin proposes the use of decimals. -
Tycho Brahe dies
Tycho Brahe dies at his castle new Prague. -
Law of Refraction
Thomas Harriot proposed the sine law of refraction, which he failed to publish. -
Projectiles
Galileo Galilei demonstrates that a projectile follows a parabolic path.