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1514
Appearance of the heliocentric theory of Nicholas Copernicus
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1522
Ferdinand Magellan famously completes the first circumnavigation of the globe.
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1569
The cartographer Gerard Mercator publishes his justly famous cartographic projection system.
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A talented clockmaker, Joost Brugi (1552-1632) invents a novel
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In mathematics, Simon Stevin proposes the use of decimals.
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The telescope is invented in the Netherlands;
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Rene Descartes published his Discours de la methodé, which was the beginning of geometry.