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  1. 3. Most famous for his paintings, including Madonna in the Meadow
  2. 4. Is best known for his three laws of planetary motion
  3. 5. Is most famous for his epic poetry. Special Collections and Archives holds a variety of Milton's major works, including Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, L'Allegro, and Il Penseroso.
  4. 7. Best known for having invented the calculus in the mid to late 1660s (most of a decade before Leibniz did so independently, and ultimately more influentially)
  5. 9. Detailed his radical theory of the Universe in which the Earth, along with the other planets, rotated around the Sun. His theory took more than a century to become widely accepted
  6. 12. The greatest writer of vernacular Italian prose of the Medieval period
  7. 13. Best known for his namesake: the continents of North and South America
  8. 14. Explored the coast, including the Florida Keys, and discovered the Gulf Stream
  9. 16. A decisive influence on the development of the classical Renaissance
  10. 17. He is best known for being the author of Don Quixote
  11. 18. The most famous among his tragedies are Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth.
  12. 19. Best known as an artist, his work as a scientist and an inventor make him a true Renaissance man
  13. 20. One of the leading activists and thinkers of the European Renaissance
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  1. 1. Is most famous for his Canzoniere, a collection of vernacular poems about a woman named Laura, whom the speaker loves throughout his life but cannot be with.
  2. 2. Best known for his masterpiece La Commedia (known in English as The Divine Comedy)
  3. 6. the greatest writer of vernacular Italian prose of the Medieval period
  4. 8. He composed dream visions such as The Book of the Duchess, The Legend of Good Women and The Parliament of Fowls
  5. 10. His graceful pictures of the Madonna and Child, his altarpieces and his life-size mythological paintings, such as 'Venus and Mars', were immensely popular in his lifetime.
  6. 11. Was a 16th century Florentine philosopher known primarily for his political ideas
  7. 15. He is famous for having made an important connection between geometry and algebra