Renaissance Notes
- Rennaissance means "re-birth"
- Italian: Rinascimento, "to be reborn"
- It is the cultural rebirth in Western Europe
- It is very influential movement from the 14th to 17th Centuries
- Mainly started in Italy
Authors
- William Shakespeare
- He wrote Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth
- Known as the best writer ever in the English language and some argue the best author of all time.
- England
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Wrote Don Quixote
- From Spain
Explorers
- Christopher Columbus
- Sailed the Atlantic in 1942 and discovered the West Indies
- He was funded by Spain even though the wasn't from Spain
- From Italy
- Ponce de Leon
- Spanish Conquistador around the current day Florida
- Looked for the fountain of youth
- Spain
- Magellan
- Portuguese
- Captaining the first circumnavigation expedition
- De Gama
- Explored in the Cape of Good Hope
- Portuguese
Artists
- Michelangelo
- Artist
- Painter
- Italy
- Statue of David
- Da Vinci
- Artist
- Painter
- Italy
- Mona Lisa
Philosophers
- Sir Francis Bacon
- English
- Philosopher
- The New Atlantis
- Sir Isaac Newton
- Philosopher
- Known for science revolution (3 laws of motion)
Mathematics
- Galileo Galilei
- Known for improvement to the telescope
- Italian
- Kepler
- Used both science and math to come up with the first law of planetary motion
- German
A.B. #2 Pick a historical building during the Renaissance period 61 sec and 5 paragraphs
Explain Emportance by:
Who built it?
Where it is built?
Why it was built
When was it built?
I have queens house.
Authors
Shakespeare
John Webster-wrote about the devil
Myles Coverdale
Don Quijote
Ben Johnson—book of alchemy
Explorers
Marco Polo
Ferdinand Magellen
King Ferdinand
Christopher Columbus
Fountain of Youth
Philosophers (OUR SKIT)
Nicolaus Copernicus- Kendra
- formulated a comprehensive heliocentric model which placed the sun at the center of the universe rather than the earth
- Went to the University of Bologna
Francis Bacon - Amy
- father was the Lord Keeper of the Seal
- left school to work for a British ambassador to France.
- promoted the title of the Lord Chancellor (highest political office in England)
- best known for the promotion of the scientific method.
- wrote a book which was first published in 1597.
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