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  2. Science in the Renaissance - Wikipedia

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    The 14th century saw the beginning of the cultural movement of the Renaissance.By the early 15th century, an international search for ancient manuscripts was underway and would continue unabated until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, when many Byzantine scholars had to seek refuge in the West, particularly Italy. [4]

  3. List of Renaissance figures - Wikipedia

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    Leonardo da Vinci, the archetype of the Renaissance man. This is a list of notable people associated with the Renaissance. Artists and architects ...

  4. Leonardo da Vinci - Wikipedia

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    Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci [b] (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. [3]

  5. Science and inventions of Leonardo da Vinci - Wikipedia

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    During the Renaissance, the study of art and science was not perceived as mutually exclusive; on the contrary, the one was seen as informing upon the other. Although Leonardo's training was primarily as an artist, it was largely through his scientific approach to the art of painting, and his development of a style that coupled his scientific ...

  6. Category:Renaissance scientists - Wikipedia

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    Category: Renaissance scientists. 5 languages. ... 16th-century scientists (13 C, 1 P) E. Renaissance engineers (2 C) Pages in category "Renaissance scientists"

  7. Paracelsus - Wikipedia

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    Paracelsus was born in Egg an der Sihl [], [18] a village close to the Etzel Pass in Einsiedeln, Schwyz.He was born in a house next to a bridge across the Sihl river.His father Wilhelm (d. 1534) was a chemist and physician, an illegitimate descendant of the Swabian noble Georg [] Bombast von Hohenheim (1453–1499), commander of the Order of Saint John in Rohrdorf.

  8. Galileo Galilei - Wikipedia

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    Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei (/ ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l eɪ oʊ ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l eɪ /, US also / ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l iː oʊ-/; Italian: [ɡaliˈlɛːo ɡaliˈlɛːi]) or mononymously as Galileo, was a Florentine astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath.

  9. Isaac Newton - Wikipedia

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    He was the first scientist to be buried in the abbey. [125] Voltaire may have been present at his funeral. [126] A bachelor, he had divested much of his estate to relatives during his last years, and died intestate. [127] His papers went to John Conduitt and Catherine Barton. [128] Shortly after his death, a plaster death mask was moulded of ...