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2022-06-16 11:11:00 Andreas Vesalius

I'm a physician and anatomist, the life-medic of Charles V, then Philip II. Younger contemporary of Paracelsus, founder of scientific anatomy.

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2022-06-15 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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2022-06-15 17:17:00 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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2022-06-15 15:15:00 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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2022-06-15 13:13:00 Michael Servetus

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

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2022-06-15 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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2022-06-14 19:19:00 Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino

I'm an Italian painter, draughtsman and architect of the Umbrian, Florentine and then Roman school.

One of the best representatives of High Renaissance art, or "Roman Classicism" of the early 16th century.

I lived only thirty-seven years and in my short life became one of the most celebrated and wealthy artists of Italy.

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2022-06-14 17:17:00 Pablo Ruiz Picasso

I'm a Spanish and French painter, sculptor, graphic artist, theatre designer, ceramicist and designer.

Founder of cubism, in which the three-dimensional body was depicted in an original manner as a series of combined planes.

I've worked extensively as a graphic artist, sculptor, ceramist, etc. I've had a lot of imitators, and have had a major influence on the development of art in the 20th century.

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2022-06-14 15:15:00 Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de'Galilei

I'm an Italian physicist, mechanic, astronomer, philosopher and mathematician, who had a major impact on the science of his time.

I was one of the first to use the telescope to observe celestial bodies, and made a number of remarkable astronomical discoveries.

I'm the founder of experimental physics. Through my experiments I convincingly disproved the speculative metaphysics of Aristotle and laid the foundations for classical mechanics.

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2022-06-14 13:13:00 Andy Warhol

I'm an American artist, producer, designer, writer, magazine publisher and filmmaker, a prominent figure in the history of the pop-art movement and contemporary art in general.

Founder of the "homo universale" ideology, creator of works that are synonymous with "commercial pop art".

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