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He suggested a system that explained how objects shrink in size according to their position and distance from the eye.
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An Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal.
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The fall of Constantinople, the end of the Middle Age
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Print revolutionises European literacy.
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His rule is considered the high point of the Florentine Renaissance.
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He was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art
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He demonstrating that the New World was not Asia but a previously unknown fourth continent
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A seminal work on the heliocentric theory, offered an alternative model of the universe to Ptolemy's geocentric system, which had been widely accepted since ancient times.
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The start of the English “Golden Age”.
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An English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist
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Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator world map of 1569 introduced a cylindrical map projection that became the standard map projection known as the Mercator projection.
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With this telescope, he was able to look at the moon, discover the four satellites of Jupiter, observe a supernova, verify the phases of Venus, and discover sunspots. His discoveries proved the Copernican system which states that the earth and other planets revolve around the sun.