The Renaissance, and the people that change the world.

Petrarch

Jul 20, 1304

Petrarch was a humanist. He also assembled Greek and Roman writings. He known for his writings. Petrarch is most known for his writings which consisted of love poems in vernacular. These poems were considered the greatest love poems of all time. He is also known as the founder of humanism.

Advancements in medicine

1400

The Advancements in medicine helped dissection of the human body's to help prove old assumes options wrong. A physician named, Andreas Vesalius was the first to dissect the human boy and publish his observations. He wrote the book called, on the structure of the human body. Which was ustractions of organs, bones and muscle. This changed the medical field forever. In the late

Michelangelo

Mar 6, 1417

Michelangelo was a famous renaissance artist, poet, scapter, etc. He is most famous for his pieces like, David, La Pieta and Sistine Chapel. He is still considered the most inspired man who ever lived. In Michelangelo’s paintings demonstrate a different way of painting, for example, he did showed a blend of psychological insights, and physical realism. This way of painting had NEVER been done before.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Apr 15, 1452

Leonardo Da Vinci was a Painter, sculptor and engineer. He is most famous for his many invention that would later turn in to ideas for everyday use. His famous painting are, Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, ect. Many of Leonardo’s inventions were passed down and actual made, for example he sketched ideas for a helicopter thought he did not get to make it people all over the way are using the invention. And not just the helicopter, many of his inventions are still being used today.

Erasmus

Oct 28, 1466

Erasmus was a Christian-Dutch humanist. He used humor to show the immoral and ignorant behavior of the people including the clergy. He felt as though people would be open minded and be read to others. Erasmus was a Christian-Dutch humanist. He used humor to show the immoral and ignorant behavior of the people including the clergy. He felt as though people would be open minded and be read to others.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Feb 19, 1473

Nicolaus Copernicus was a mathematician and astronomer. He was the first to make a model and say that sun was the center of the universe rather than the earth. Most Nicolaus is famous for is hypothesis saying that the sun was the center of the universe. This lead to many other astronomers thinking a different way. This Way of thinking was what made him hated thought out the english churches.

Sir Thomas More

Feb 7, 1478

Sir Thomas More was a English humanist, his works such as, Utopia was an idea of perfect harmony between men and women, saying things like, no private property or that no one is lazy. Tomas was known for his book, Utopia. He also is known for his death. Tomas had died by not acknowledging that King Henry the Vlll was not the head of the church of England. He was canonized by the catholic church as a saint in 1935.

Raphael

Apr 6, 1520

Raphael was an amazing renaissance painter. His most known pieces, The School of Athens. The ancient Greek city. Raphael is most known for his amazing paintings. He is considered to be the best artist of the renaissance, along with Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci. He changed the way people viewed art by adding realistic colors and people.

Galileo Galilei

Feb 15, 1564

Galileo Galilei was an italian astronomer who had new ideas on astronomy . He was the first to invent his own telescope in 1609. He finally saw that the moon many craters and wash not a perfect sphere. Galileo was famous for inventing the telescope and finding that Jupiter had four moons, and a big red dot in the middle. He also wrote a book called Starry messenger. Though He wasn't supposed to publish the book. eventually he was put under house arrest a died.

Isaac Newton

Jan 4, 1643

Isaac Newton was a english mathematican and physicians. He is said to be the most influential scientist of all time. He created the laws of motion.
Newton is famous for his laws of gravity. In 1687 he wrote the book, The mathematical principles of philosophy. Even though most of work is brilliant some of it didn't make much sense, for example he believed that God was the “clockmaker ‘ that sets everything in motion.