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1450
GUTENBERG : invention of printing
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1485
Léonard de Vinci :parachute prototype
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1543
Nicolas Copernic : heliocentrism
Earth is not the center of the world -
1543
André Vasale : development of medicine
An advance of the medicine thanks to numerous works on the dissection of bodies
Public dissection of the body of Karrer Jakob von Gebweiler, a famous murderer from Bale -
Galilée : earth revolves around the sun
Galileo supports the ideas of Copernicus who asserts that the sun is the center of the universe and not the earth, going against the ideas of Aristotle, which will earn him a trial before the Tribunal of the Inquisition. -
Johannes Kepler : Kepler's laws
German astronomer, supporter of Copernic's system, he discovered the laws of planetary motion (Kepler's laws)