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Jun 1, 1265
Dante Alighieri
Dante created "The Divine Comedy" poem and the first part was about the inferno. It has been praised for it's wisdom and for it's learning. This poem has made people think more about hell and made them fear of it. The poem has impacted us by thinking more about hell and made us fear of it. Dante was one of the few poets in that time so he has made us think of a different type of poetry. It has wisdom and is for scholarly learning so this poem is still mentioned nowadays. -
Apr 15, 1452
Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo Da Vinci had changed what people thought about art and science . He excelled in anatomy, astronomy, botany, geology, geometry, and optics. He designed many machines. He also drew plans for hundreds of his inventions and developed other ideas. His inventions of the helicopter, using perspective and the way he thought of science changed how people thought about the world and made us gain more knowledge and ideas we can use to build and create many things by his concept. -
Jan 1, 1454
Printing Press
The printing press was invented by Johannes Gutenberg. It is a machine that uses inked plates to make images and text printed on paper. Before this was invented, books were expensive treasures to most people.The printing press has made written knowledge cheap and accessible to most of the population from the Renaissance onwards. The printing press was a help to make newspapers and access daily news of what we read everyday. -
May 3, 1469
Niccolò Machiavelli
<a href='' >ISBN: 0-7500-1055-X</a>Machiavelli (May 3, 1469 - June 21, 1527) wrote a very famous book "The Prince". In this book, it had described a new way of thinking of science. His saying was "to describe things things as they really are. Not how they are in imagination." His words were so evil that people thought he was working with devil to come up with such awful ideas. Lasting impact to us today: The book led to great changes in how people think about politics. It also changed how people write about politics now. -
Feb 19, 1473
Order of Planets
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) had developed the theory that Earth is a moving planet and that Earth and the other planets revolve around the sun: the sun was motionless. This impacts us because NASA does research on this and follows Copernicus's theory and also has proved it. It has also changed our understanding of the universe and how it is even though we haven't seen the actual thing but know it's correct because Copernicus, Galileo and other people have proved it correct. -
Jun 28, 1491
Henry VIII
Henry VIII wanted to execute his second wife. The pope did not allow him to execute his wife so he made his own church and named it "the church of England" Henry VIII showed courage to deny the church's rule and to create his own church. He impacts us by teaching us to not follow what he has done. He has impacted us because one of his daughters "Elizabeth" became to queen of England and now there is a series and one of them is the current queen of England who impacts a lot of us. -
Jan 1, 1499
French conquer Milan
In 1499, the flow of Renaissance ideas started flowing into neighbouring countries and went on and on. People started think more about social equality and more countries started developing ideas of the renaissance which led this generation into more ideas flowing. -
Jan 1, 1500
Architecture
In the middle of the Renaissance, the style of architecture completely overturned. Buildings were all based on proportion, geometry, classical style, ancient roman architecture, arrangements of columns, pilasters, lintels, semicircular arches, hemispherical domes etc. This all removed the type of irregular achitecture the medieval times would have. This impacted us now because a lot of the buildings created nowadays are all depending on perspective, lines, design, arrangements, extorior etc. -
Dec 31, 1514
Medicine Change
People started to go into human anatomy to see the body structure to know what was going on for so many years. Vesalius was the main person of that time who went into human anatomy and wrote a book on the whole body structure and his findings. This helped other researchers to create the correct treatment for us. This impacts us because we have correct medicines that supply us to get well or recover from most diseases and check what disease we have not only from anatomy but from other researches. -
Jan 1, 1517
Martin Luther: Reformation
1517: Martin Luther spread his writings against the church all over Northern Europe. This caused a reformation of the church and a new kind of christanity was formed called"protestants" This impacts us because it caused a completely new set of religion. -
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo Galilei
Galileo's invention of the telescope changed understanding of universe. He changed beliefs that were held for years. He used a different scientific method by using observation and experiment instead of philosophy and thought which changed how we conduct experiments and he proved ideas that were correct but denied by the church to lead us into the correct ideas. -
Apr 26, 1564
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare is know as the greatest English writer ever. Shakespeare wrote about 38 plays, two narrative poems, sonnets and short poems. This has had a significant change to us, especially in drama. His scripts are used to create big plays and help the makers of the play earn a lot of money and his style of poems and changed our thinking in one aspect of poem writing. He didn't really invent anything but his ideas were amazing and helped us think of more things and topics to write about. -
Taj Mahal
The Taj Mahal in Agra, India has changed perspective and the view of architecture.The Taj Mahal created the concept of fine Mughal architecture, exterior and interior. Shah Jahan created the Taj Mahal to be so proportionate, it is now used in most buildings nowadays The things used while creating the exterior were paint, stucco, stone inlays, carvings, calligraphy, abstract forms or vegetative motifs which is used more now due to the Taj Mahal. It has also changed our view of perspective. -
Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke invented the theory of: the amount an elastic body bends or stretches out of shape (strain) is in direct proportion to the force (stress) acting on it. His theory lead to the invention of many great things such as rubber bands/elastic bands which were created according to his rule. Many of the things created nowadays relates straight back to Hooke's rule. -
Gravity
Isaac Newton created the theory of universal gravity: every universal body attracts each other due to gravity. If we hadn't found out what gravity was, we wouldn't know why things go up and have to end up falling down. He had also found out why the moon didn’t have any gravity on it. Isaac's invention has made a help to scientists, designing the required things for going to space and us for learning about it. He is "one of the greatest names in the history of human thought: due to his knowledge.
