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Jan 9, 1324
marco polo
January 9, 1324) 1 was a Venetian merchant traveler from the Venetian Republic whose travels are recorded in Il Million, a book which did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China. Marco polo -
Jan 1, 1400
martin luther
Martin Luther was a great philosopher of the 1400's. He was one of the leaders that helped to separate Roman Catholics from Protestants. He was affiliated with many of the crusades taking place during that time period. Martin Luther's. -
May 25, 1420
Henry
On 25 May 1420, Henry gained appointment as the governor of the very rich Order of Christ, the Portuguese successor to the Knights Templar, which had its headquarters at Tomar. -
Jan 1, 1492
Columbus
He had discovered, his voyage made other explorers willing to embark on voyages that would come to make up the Era of Discovery. He was the first and his voyages encouraged others. As a result of Columbus's voyages to the New World, a biological pipeline between America and Europe opened up that had been apart since before humans appeared on earth. -
Jan 1, 1509
Pizarro
Pizarro's first expedition was in 1509 and he was the first mate. The captain was Balboa, another famous explorer. The expedition’s purpose was to explore the land that is now Panama. The crew founded Panama City and Pizarro was an important townsperson there.. -
Jan 1, 1519
Hernando Cortes
Hernando Cortes "discovered" Tenochtitlan, which was the capital of the Aztec empire. Also he followed the footsteps of Columbus from Spain to Mexico and the Caribbean islands. And he conquered the Aztecs -
Apr 24, 1519
magellan
He was the first to say that the earth along with the other heavenly bodies orbited around the sun not the other way around. -
Apr 27, 1521
copernicus
April 27, 1521 Mactin Island, Cebu, Philippines) was a Portuguese maritime explorer who, while in the service of the Spanish Crown, tried to find a westward route to the Spice Islands of Indonesia. This was the '''first successful attempt to circumnavigate the Earth in history. -
Jan 1, 1534
Cartier
Cartier first voyage to the New World was in 1534 Cartier's big highlights were in the St. Lawrence River area. He discovered the river and also went down it a few times. He explored the Gulf of St. Lawrence also. His main goal was to find a short route to Asia. He also went to Newfoundland and explored there a little bit. He was in many different areas of what’s now Quebec and Canada. He also explored Anicosti Island. -
Jan 1, 1536
calvin
John Calvin is the author of the most famous theological book ever published Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion. He is also the primary person behind the printing of the famous Geneva Bible. -
Jan 1, 1541
Ignatius
Ignatius was the founder of the Society of Jesus - the Jesuit order that received papal approval in 1541. -
Jan 1, 1572
Tycho
The major portion of Tycho's lifework--making and recording accurate astronomical observations--had already been done at Uraniborg. To his earlier observations, particularly his proof that the nova of 1572 was a star, he added a comprehensive study of the solar system and his proof that the orbit of the comet of 1577 lay beyond the Moon. He also showed, incorrectly, that the stars have no parallax, a prediction of the heliocentric theory. -
Descartes
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Galileo
September 1610, Galileo observed that Venus exhibited a full set of phases similar to that of the Moon. -
bacon
was a philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution. Bacon has been called the creator of empiricism. His works established and popularised inductive methodologies for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method, or simply the scientific method. -
Johannes
The Kitchen Maid, is a painting of a milkmaid by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, and is housed in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.It was painted in 1658, using oil on canvas -
Boyle
In 1661, The Sceptical Chymist was published and is considered Boyle's crowning achievement. He argues against Aristotle's view of the four elements of earth, air, fire and water and in favor of matter consisting of corpuscles (atoms) which were in turn built up of configurations of primary particles. Another point was that these primary particles move freely in liquids, but less so in solids. He also put forth the idea that the world could be described as a system of simple mathematical laws. -
, Newton
During the initial years of the 1670s, Newton worked in the field of optics. His work led to the discovery that a prism can decompose white light into a spectrum of colors. He was successful in demonstrating that a combination of a lens and a prism could recompose a spectrum of colors into white light. He discovered that color is an outcome of objects reflecting colored light. This discovery became famous by the name, 'Newton's Theory of Color'. Newton was famous for the reflecting telescope. -
Vasco Da Gama
Vasco Da Gama Found a route from Portugal east to India by going around the Cape of Good Hope, the southern tip of Africa. He set up trade in India and eventually became the Portuguese Viceroy in India.
