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    Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (1397 – 10 May 1482) was an Italian mathematician, astronomer, and cosmographer. Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli was born in Florence...
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    Toscanelli is a tiny, bowl-shaped lunar impact crater that is located to the north of the prominent crater Aristarchus, in the northwestern part of the...
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    around AD 1000. The Italian astronomer, mathematician and cosmographer Paolo Toscanelli is associated with the 1475 placement of a bronze plate with a round...
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  • was unit of volume that was half a ton. The man "from Cathay" whom Paolo Toscanelli, in a 1474 letter to Christopher Columbus, described as visiting Pope...
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  • Italian mathematician and astronomer Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli. "Planetary Names: Rupes, rupēs: Rupes Toscanelli on Moon". planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov...
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    1P/1456 K1, 1456 1456 78 9 June 8 January – 9 June Observed in Italy by Paolo Toscanelli, who said its head was "as large as the eye of an ox", with a tail...
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    labelled as y de sete zitade[what language is this?] 1474 "map" of Paolo Toscanelli – map missing, but Antilia referenced in letter. 1476 map of Andrea...
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    Italian grammar. He collaborated with the Florentine cosmographer Paolo Toscanelli in astronomy, a science close to geography at that time. He also wrote...
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    later employed in the maps made by European cartographers such as Paolo Toscanelli during the Age of Exploration. The theory of motion developed by Avicenna...
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    overtake them for accuracy until the fifteenth century: in 1456 AD Paolo Toscanelli tracked the progress of Halley's Comet to within a fraction of a degree...
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