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The Renaissance

  • GUTENBERG : invention of printing
    1450

    GUTENBERG : invention of printing

  • Léonard de Vinci :parachute prototype
    1485

    Léonard de Vinci :parachute prototype

  • Nicolas Copernic : heliocentrism
    1543

    Nicolas Copernic : heliocentrism

    Earth is not the center of the world
  • André Vasale : development of medicine
    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

    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

    Johannes Kepler : Kepler's laws

    German astronomer, supporter of Copernic's system, he discovered the laws of planetary motion (Kepler's laws)