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People of the renaissance (Mathematician (Leonardo da Vinci, Born: April…
People of the renaissance
Mathematician
Leonardo da Vinci
Born: April 15, 1452, Died: May 2, 1519
The Impact of Leonardo da Vinci Paintings. Leonardo da Vinci is famous for a wide range of accomplishments within diverse fields and practices. He was considered a brilliant painter, inventor, scientist, philosopher, engineer and early medical researcher by his peers.
Mathematician
Nicolaus Copernicus
Born: February 19, 1473, Died: May 24, 1543,
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) was a Renaissance polymath responsible for what some have called the “Copernican Revolution.” One of the most important contributions of Copernicus was to the field of astronomy. Copernicus placed the sun at the center of the universe, rather than the earth.
Designer
Filippo Brunelleschi
Born: 1377, Died: April 15, 1446
Filippo Brunelleschi was the first of the great Renaissance architects and a pioneer of perspective. He influenced many later architects, including Michelangelo. In 1420, he began to design the dome of Florence Cathedral, the largest since the Hagia Sophia.
Astronomer
Galileo Galilei
Born: February 15, 1564, Died: January 8, 1642
Galileo Galilei was considered the father of modern science as he made important contributions to physics, astronomy, mathematics and many other scientific areas during the Renaissance Era.
Author
Christine de Pisan
Born: September 11, 1364, Died: 1430
Christine de Pizan was a French Renaissance writer who wrote some of the very first feminist pieces of literature. During the Renaissance, Christine de Pizan broke with the traditional roles assigned to women in several ways during a time when women had no legal rights and were considered a man's property. Because she was one of the few women of the time period that were educated, she was able to write.
Explorer
Vasco de Gama
Born: 1469, Died: December 24, 1524
Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful in the European Age of Discovery, and the first person to sail directly from Europe to India.
Professor
Born: November 10, 1483, Died: February 18, 1546,
Martin Luther
Martin Luther, a man of spectacular thoughts on the Catholic community during his time. He had affected society in the 1500s. He took part in what is currently known today as the Protestant Reformation. Martin Luther was a great man of the Renaissance who had changed the corrupt Catholic Church.
Explorer
Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan was the first man to circumnavigate the world and proved that the world was round and NOT flat which was the popular belief of the time.
