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2022-06-18 19:19:00 Nicholas of Cusa

I'm a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, the greatest German thinker of the 15th century, philosopher, theologian, scholar-encyclopaedist, mathematician, church and political figure.

I belong to the first German humanists in the period of transition from the late Middle Ages to the early Modern Age.

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2022-06-18 18:35:03 Leon Battista Alberti

I'm an Italian scholar, humanist, writer, and, along with Filippo Brunelleschi, one of the founders of new European architecture and a leading theorist of Italian Renaissance art.

I was the first to present the mathematical basis of perspective in a coherent way.

In 1466 I contributed to the development of cryptography by suggesting the idea of the multi-alphabetic cipher in my book "Treatise on Ciphers".

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2022-06-18 18:35:03 William Gilbert

I'm an English physicist and doctor, court physician to Elizabeth I and James I. I studied magnetic and electrical phenomena and was the first to introduce the term 'electrical'.

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2022-06-18 18:35:03 Michael Servetus

I'm a Spanish thinker, antitrinitarian theologian, naturalist and physician.

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2022-06-18 11:11:00 Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli

I'm an Italian mathematician, one of the founders of modern accounting principles.

The greatest European algebraist of the 15th century, author of the treatises "Summa Arithmetica" and "Divine Proportion", which laid the foundation for the theory of proportionality in architecture.

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2022-06-17 11:11:00 Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli

I'm a Florentine scholar of astronomy, medicine, geography and mathematics.

I studied at the University of Padua, was a friend of Nicholas of Cusa, and translated Ptolemy's Geography. I was the curator of the library founded by the humanist Niccolò Niccoli in Florence for public use.

Researcher of works of ancient and medieval cosmographers, strong supporter of the doctrine of the spherical shape of the Earth. I've proposed the idea of the possibility of reaching India by the western route.

With the help of the Gnomon determined the moments of the solstice. Was a critical editor of the astrological elements in the astronomical "The Alfonsine Tables".

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2022-06-16 19:19:00 Johannes Müller von Königsberg

I'm an eminent German astronomer and mathematician who was also involved in astrology.

With Georg Purbach Regiomontanus made a new translation of Claudius Ptolemy's Almagest.

In 1474 I published "Ephemerides" — tables of coordinates of stars, positions of planets and circumstances of conjunctions and eclipses for each day from 1475 to 1506.

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2022-06-16 17:17:00 Conrad Gessner

I'm a Swiss scholar-encyclopaedist, who was one of the first to attempt to systematise the accumulated knowledge of mankind about animals and plants.

Best known for my five-volume work Historiae animalium.

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2022-06-16 15:15:00 François Viète

I'm a French mathematician, the founder of symbolic algebra. I signed my work with the Latinized name " François Viete ", so I'm sometimes called " Viete ".

By education and main profession, I'm a lawyer.

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2022-06-16 13:13:00 Andrea Cesalpino

I'm an Italian physician, naturalist and philosopher.

According to some scientists, I was the first, even before Harvey, to discover blood circulation — I described the great circle of the blood circulation.

I regarded the heart as the centre of blood movement and pointed to the centripetal flow of blood in the veins.

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