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Nicolo Tartaglia

Nicolo, known as Tartaglia (Italian: [tarˈtaʎʎa]; 1499/1500 – 13 December 1557), was an Italian mathematician, engineer (who designed fortifications), a surveyor (who studied topography to find the best ways to defend or attack), and a bookkeeper from the then Republic of Venice. He published many books, including the first Italian translations of Archimedes and Euclid, and a well-received collection of mathematical works. Tartaglia was the first to use mathematics to study the paths of cannonballs, called ballistics, in his book Nova Scientia (A New Science, 1537).

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Leon Battista Alberti

Leon Battista Alberti (Italian: [leombatˈtista alˈbɛɾti]; born February 14, 1404; died April 25, 1472) was an Italian Renaissance writer, artist, architect, poet, priest, language expert, thinker, and code maker. He is often seen as a person who had knowledge in many areas. Alberti is known as the beginning of European code making, a title he shares with Johannes Trithemius.

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Vannoccio Biringuccio

Vannoccio Biringuccio, sometimes spelled Vannocio Biringuccio (about 1480–about 1539), was an Italian expert in working with metals. He is most famous for his book about metalworking, De la pirotechnia, which was published after his death in 1540.

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Giambattista della Porta

Giambattista della Porta (Italian: [dʒambatˈtista della ˈpɔrta]; 1535–4 February 1615), also known as Giovanni Battista Della Porta, was an Italian scholar, expert in many areas, and playwright who lived in Naples during the Renaissance, Scientific Revolution, and Counter-Reformation. Giambattista della Porta focused much of his life on scientific studies. He received education through private tutors and visits from well-known scholars.

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Gerolamo Cardano

Gerolamo Cardano was an Italian expert in many areas, including mathematics, medicine, biology, physics, chemistry, astrology, astronomy, philosophy, music theory, writing, and gambling. He was one of the most important mathematicians during the Renaissance and helped start the study of probability. He introduced the binomial coefficients and the binomial theorem to the Western world.

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Filippo Brunelleschi

Filippo di ser Brunellesco di Lippo Lapi (1377–15 April 1446), often called Filippo Brunelleschi (/ˌbruːnəˈlɛskɪ/ BROO-nə-LESK-ee; Italian: [fiˈlippo brunelˈleski]), was also nicknamed Pippo by Leon Battista Alberti. He was an Italian architect, designer, goldsmith, and sculptor. He is regarded as one of the first people to begin Renaissance architecture.

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Galileo Galilei

Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de’ Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), often called Galileo Galilei, was an Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer. He was an expert in many areas of science and was born in the city of Pisa, which was part of the region known as Florence. He was called the father of observational astronomy, modern physics, the scientific method, and modern science.

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Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452, and died on May 2, 1519. He was an Italian expert in many fields during the High Renaissance. He worked as a painter, artist, engineer, scientist, writer, sculptor, and architect.

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Theodorus of Samos

Theodorus of Samos (Greek: Θεόδωρος ὁ Σάμιος) was a sculptor and architect from the Greek island of Samos in the 6th century BC. He worked with another artist named Rhoecus and was often credited with developing the process of melting metal ores and casting metal. According to the ancient writer Pausanias, Theodorus was also responsible for creating the craft of casting.

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Fibonacci

Leonardo Bonacci (around 1170 to around 1240–50), often called Fibonacci, was an Italian mathematician from the Republic of Pisa. He is regarded as “the most talented Western mathematician of the Middle Ages.” The name “Fibonacci” first appears in a modern source in a 1838 text by the Franco-Italian mathematician Guglielmo Libri. It is short for “filius Bonacci,” meaning “son of Bonacci.” However, as early as 1506, Perizolo, a notary of the Holy Roman Empire, referred to him as “Lionardo Fibonacci.” Fibonacci helped spread the Indo–Arabic numeral system in the Western world, mainly through his book Liber Abaci (Book of Calculation), written in 1202.

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