Japan's Edo period and the European Renaissance were seperated by hundreds of years. But in spite of that, there was a cat in Edo Japan who fit the definition of "renaissance man": the scholar, inventor, and artist known as Hiraga Gennai.
And so Hiraga Gennai became 
famous by shocking the public.
Y Hiraga Gennai se hizo famoso
por electrizar al público.
E assim Hiraga Gennai tornou-se
famoso por surpreender o público.