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Galileo Galilei was the Father of modern sciences and medieval exponent of observation and experiment. He was the first scientist to record accurate data through his telescope. Galileo supported the theory by Copernicus, that sun is the centre not earth of our Universe. 

"The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy" tells about the  Italian Renaissance, it was written by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt is 1860. The book is divided into six parts.

Seven books of the Structure of the Human Body was written by Andreas Vesalius. The book was published in 1543. It was a collection of speeches by Vesalius in Padua. This book is an advance description of human anatomy.  

Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer who reached India by sea on May 17, 1498. His fleet reached Kappakadavu near Calicut in the current Indian state of Kerala.

A shift from God centred literary activities to human centred literary trends is known as humanism. Petrarch is supposed to have been the original thinker who preached humanism. Humanism spread from Italy to other parts of Europe. 

The fine arts, literature and history in the Medieval period were centered on religious ideology. The texts were invariably written in Greek and Latin as these languages were considered elite and scholarly. By the dawn of the 13th century, Latin and Greek gave way to regional languages like English, Spanish, and French. The writers of this period adopted the life of the common man as the central theme of their works. The literature of this period was no longer confined to religion and philosophy but gave way to themes that depicted diverse aspects of human life. Similar changes occurred in other art forms like painting and sculpture. This vision, primarily concerned with the various aspects of human life, is known as humanism.

Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet, disciple of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist.  Boccaccio was among notable friends of Petrarch to whom he wrote often.