This document summarizes important figures and developments during the period from 1350 to 1650:
- Artists like Michelangelo changed how the world viewed art and their works are still influential today.
- Christopher Columbus discovered North America in 1492 while attempting to find a trade route to East India.
- Andreas Vesalius established the foundations of modern human anatomy through his detailed studies of human dissection.
- Galileo Galilei is considered the father of modern science due to his influential work in math, physics, and astronomy.
- Isaac Newton discovered gravity and invented calculus, advancing science and understanding of motion.
- Leonardo da Vinci was a pioneering polymath whose ideas were