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Detail of Pizarro's tomb

Francisco was second cousin to Hernán Cortés, the famed conquistador of Mexico.

became the first Europeans to view the Pacific coast of the New World

Peru.

uncontrolled rage, an evident congenital inheritance transmitted to his oldest son,

Religion

Advances such as writing, epigraphy, and the calendar did not originate with the Maya; however, their civilization fully developed them. Maya influence can be detected from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and to as far as central Mexico, more than 1000 km (625 miles) from the Maya area.

The basic elements of Ptolemaic astronomy, showing a planet on an epicycle with an eccentric deferent and an equant point.

Tomb of Galileo Galilei, Santa Croce

Galileo also worked in applied science and technology, improving compass design.

Galileo made original contributions to the science of motion through an innovative combination of experiment and mathematics

Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564[2] – 8 January 1642)[1][3] was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher

On 7 January 1610 Galileo observed with his telescope what he described at the time as "three fixed stars, totally invisible

Claudius Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemy

Although the basic tenets of Greek geocentrism were established by the time of Aristotle, the details of his system did not become standard. This honor was reserved for the Ptolemaic system, espoused by the Hellenistic astronomer Claudius Ptolemaeus in the 2nd century AD. His main astronomical book, the Almagest, was the culmination of centuries of work by Hellenic, Hellenistic and Babylonian astronomers; it was accepted for over a millennium as the correct cosmological model by European and Islamic astronomers. Because of its influence, the Ptolemaic system is sometimes considered identical with the geocentric model.