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Oct 31, 1451
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus is born in 1451 on October 31, In Genoa Italy -
Mar 1, 1462
Epitome of Ptolemy's Almagest
One of the major publications of Renaissance natural philosophy, the Epitome of Ptolemy's Almagest appears; the authors, Georg Peurbach and Johannes Regiomontanus, symbolize a shift from reverence for Ptolemy and antiquity to respect coupled with confident innovation -
Feb 21, 1472
Georg Peurbach
Georg Peurbach's New Theory of the Planets was published. -
Feb 21, 1561
Gabrele Falloppio
Gabriele Falloppio announces his discovery of the fallopian tubes in his Anatomical Observations. -
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei is born in Pisa, Italy -
Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe, having been ousted from Uraniborg by the King of Denmark, moves to Benateky, outside Prague, under the patronage of Rudolph II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. -
Thomas Harriot
1601 -- Thomas Harriot proposed the sine law of refraction, which he failed to publish -
Galileo vs Aristotle
Galileo publishes his strategic essay, The Assayer where he argues against Aristotle and the Scholastics in favor of mathematical and experimental methods, moving deftly across many topics, from statics and dynamics to his theory of matter. -
Newton's Opticks
Publication of the first Latin edition of Newton's Opticks with its Queries -
Newton's Observations
Newton's Observations Upon the Prophecies is published; some eleven printings follow
