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Explorer and navigator Christopher Columbus was born in 1451 in the Republic of Genoa, Italy.
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One of the major publications of Renaissance natural philosophy,
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Publication of the highly influential Corpus Hermeticum, a collection of writings (we now know) to have been written in the early Christian era but then thought to have been written with great authority by Hermes Trismegistus (perhaps Thoth or Moses) living c.1800 BC.
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Georg Peurbach's New Theory of the Planets.
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Nicolaus Copernicus was born on February 19, 1473 in Torun, Poland.
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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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Ferdinand Magellan famously completes the first circumnavigation of the globe.
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The following year, on September 6, 1522, despite having almost lost their lives in their efforts, the remainder of Magellan's fleet returned to Spain, thus proving that the globe was in fact round.
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Publication of the works of Pedro Nunez on navigation
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Conrad Gessner publishes a massive and highly influential work, the History of Animals.
