Renaissance

Humanism

1401

Humanism focuses primarily on humans, collectively and individually. Francesco Petrarca is considered the first humanist to have lived, being called "the father of humanism". Humanism is still around today, but not as much. It isn't necessarily called a "religion" anymore.

Perspective

1415

Perspective is giving off the impression that something is farther away in a piece of art. This was started by Fillipo Brunelleschi in one of his pieces of works. Perspective is still very well around today in our works of art today.

Printing Revolution

1440

The printing revolution is when the printing press was invented. It made making books and newspapers and letters a lot easier and faster, allowing more of these things to be made. The most printed book was the Bible. It allowed us to tweak designs and mechanics to what we now have today.

Leonardo da Vinci

Apr 15, 1495

Leonardo da Vinci was a famous artist during the Renaissance period, creating many pieces of art. Some of his pieces were "The Vitruvian Man" and "The Last Supper". He was important in this time as he created so many pieces that are still around today and admired today, such as "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper".

Henry VIII

1509

Henry VIII was king of England beginning in 1509. He is famous for having six wives (Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and Catherine Parr), who became famous for the ways they died, having a rhyme made up to remember how each died: Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived, and have a Broadway musical dedicated to the six queens of Henry: Six. He is best known today for the ways things ended with each of his six wives.

Copernicus

1532

Copernicus was a mathematician and astronomer, born 1457 and died 1543. He was the one to propose that the sun was the center of our universe rather than the Earth being the center of our universe, as a lot of people thought. This theory holds true as fact today, as now we have technology to actually prove his theory correct.

Heliocentric Theory

1543

The Heliocentric theory suggested that all the planets and Sun did not revolve around Earth, but instead they all revolved around the Sun. The one who came up with this theory was Copernicus. This is still important today because this is what we all believe, along with having proof of this as well.

Elizabeth I

Nov 17, 1558

Elizabeth I was the Queen of both England and Ireland from November 17 to her death in March of 1603. She is the daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. She was the last monarch from the House of Tudor. During her reign, she built the fishing and boat building industries.

William Shakespeare

1564

William Shakespeare was born in April of 1564 and died April 23, 1616. He would go on to write 37 plays in his lifetime, some of which are still relevant today, such as Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, A Midsummer's Night Dream, etc. Shakespeare is still important today as he created about 1,700 works in the English language.

Galileo

1609

Galileo was born 1564 and died 1642. He is best known for discovering four of Jupiter's moons. He would also become the first person to look at the moon through a microscope.

Scientific Method

1620

The scientific method shows that in order to collect accurate evidence. The steps to the scientific method is make an observation, ask a question, form a hypothesis, make a prediction based on hypothesis, test the prediction, and use the results to make a new hypothesis. It is used today to attempt to get rid of bias or prejudice in any experiment.

Isaac Newton

1687

Isaac Newton was born January 4, 1643 and died March 31, 1727. He was the one who came up with the theory of gravity, though he was not the absolute first person to come up with this theory. He is best known for this theory, and the one we look at today as the most common one.