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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ...rary to this belief, most people at that time accepted that the earth was round. The main debate was o...
13: It has generally been accepted that he was [[Genoa|Genovese]], although doubts...
19: ... versions of Columbus's origins and life before [[1476]]. (''See'' [[#Columbus's National Origin: Subjec...
29: A [[1476]], commercial expedition gave Columbus his first ...
43: ... distance to the Indies. Most scholars accepted [[Ptolemy]]'s claim that the terrestrial landmass (for... - Printing (4400 bytes)
11: ...[[Diamond Sutra]]'' of AD [[868]], a Buddhist scripture). The [[movable type]] printer was invented by...
15: ...n 1469, and the city had 417 printers by 1500. In 1476, a printing press was developed in England by [[W...
63: * [[PostScript]] - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
6: ... brother instead. From [[1486]] to [[1494]] (except the year [[1487]]-[[1488]], which he may have spe...
14: ...rary musical practice. He possessed a vivid conception of the meaning and dramatic possibilities of t...
16: ...wards or away from perfection but as trends of adaptation and influence; as such Josquin is seen as so...
18: ... and [[Venice]]. Others were preserved in manuscript in the archives of the papal choir in [[Rome]] an... - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
2: ... [[anatomist]], [[inventor]], [[engineer]], [[sculptor]], [[geometer]], and [[painter]]. He has been d...
16: ...e time afterwards, Leonardo and the others were kept under observation by Florence's [[Officers of the...
20: Leonardo kept his private life particularly secret, and there i...
22: ...of a [[Lombard]] aristocrat. Salai eventually accepted Melzi's continued presence and the three undert...
29: ...w) were cast into weapons for the Duke in an attempt to save [[Milan]] from the [[France|French]] unde... - Sandro Botticelli (8995 bytes)
5: ... Botticelli. A different influence was the new scuptural monumentality of the [[Antonio Pollaiuolo|Pol...
13: ...ies]]". Earlier, Botticelli had painted an ''Assumption of the Virgin'' for Matteo Palmieri in a chape...
14: ...a large number of figures representing the ''Assumption of Our Lady'' with zones of patriarchs, prophe...
16: This is a common misconception based on a mistake by Vasari. The painting ref...
19: ...ity in the Renaissance explored these themes in depth.) - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
18: *[[Ahmes]] (Egypt, roughly around [[17th century BC]])
114: *[[Brahmagupta]] (India, [[598]]-[[668]])
141: ...àro]] (Italy, [[March 12]], [[1859]] - [[September 12]], [[1906]])
211: *[[Diophantus]] of Alexandria (Ptolemaic Egypt, circa [[298 BC|298 B.C.]] - [[214 BC|214 B.C.]])
233: *[[Eratosthenes]] (Ptolemaic Egypt, [[276 BC|276 B.C.]] - [[194 BC|194 B.C.]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
155: *[[Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre]] ([[France]], [[1749]] &ndas...
240: *[[Benjamin Apthorp Gould]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1824]] &nda...
313: *[[Jacobus Kapteyn]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1851]] – [[1922]])
411: *[[Johannes M?] ([[Germany]], [[1436]] – [[1476]])
472: *[[Ptolemy]] of Alexandria ([[Roman Egypt]], circa [[85]] – [[165]]) - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ...n the site of the monastery of Saint [[John the Baptist]], took in Christian pilgrims traveling to vis...
9: ...ted by the Papacy, for example, the order was exempt from all authority save that of the Pope, and it ...
15: ...[County of Tripoli]] and when [[Akko|Acre]] was captured in [[1291]] the order sought refuge in the [[...
17: ... in the [[15th century]], one by the Sultan of Egypt in [[1444]] and another by [[Mehmed II]] in [[148...
29: ...st the entirety of their fleet was destroyed or captured in what is now known as the [[Battle of Lepan...
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