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Period: Jan 1, 1350 to
The Renaissance
A periode of blumming art and scientific discovery throughout Europe -
Jan 1, 1401
Wool Guild Artist Contest
A wool manufacturing company wanted an artist to create new doors for the Baptistry of the local cathedral, an old eight sided building. The guild held a contest to see which artist would make the doors. The winner of the contest was a 23-year old goldsmith named Lorenzo Ghiberti. -
Jan 1, 1408
Statue of David
Donatello revolusionized sculpting by making a large free standing statue called " David " -
Jan 1, 1420
The Cathedral of Florence
In 1420, a talented artist named Brunelleschi, started to work on the Cathedral of Florence. Even though he did lose in the Gold Door contest, his genious was recongnized when Brunellesechi desided to cap the Cathedral with a giant dome. When the dome was done, it stood a woping 370 feet above the street. -
Jan 1, 1425
Masaccio developed Perspective
Masaccio, a brilliant painter, develops a technique to make objects and people look farther away. -
Jan 1, 1505
Michelangelo Paints the Sistine Chapel Cieling
Michelangelo paints a stuningly beautiful painting representing creation, the Downfall of Man and the Promise of Salvation through the prophets and Genealogy of Christ. -
Jan 1, 1543
Sun Centered Solar System Theory
Copernicous, a brilliant and deep thinking scientist, comes up with a theory that our planet, along with the rest of the solar system, orbits around the sun. -
Galileo's Pendulum Experiment
Galileo's Pendulum Experiment tested if a heavy object with no wind resistance would hit the grownd more quickly then a lighter object with no wind resistance. The experiment proved that they each fell at the same time. -
The Telescope
A Dutch invetor invented the telescope. A instrument used to make far away thinks look closer. -
The Thermometer
A scientist named Gabriel Fahrendheit invents the Thermometer, an istrument that measured the temperature of something. -
The Microscope
A inventor in the Netherlands named Anton Van Leewenhoek ,invents the Microscope, and instument used to see microorganisms and other microscopic things.
