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Renaissance

  • Masaccio
    Mar 9, 1420

    Masaccio

    First to use linear perspective in his painting
  • Donatello
    Mar 9, 1443

    Donatello

    First sculptor to create free-standing statues.
  • Nicolaus Copernicus
    Mar 9, 1497

    Nicolaus Copernicus

    Developed the sun-center theory, and some people wanted to learn more about his ideas.
  • Michelangelo
    Mar 9, 1501

    Michelangelo

    Michelangelo was an Italian sculptor, architect, painter and poet his great works were almost entirely in the service of the Catholic Church, and include a huge statue of the biblical hero David
  • Leonardo Da Vinci
    Mar 9, 1503

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci is the painter of the Mona Lisa.
  • Raphael
    May 9, 1580

    Raphael

    Raphael drew The Dispuration of The Holy Sacrament.
  • William Gilbert

    William Gilbert

    Advanced study of magnetism, and first to suggest Earth is a big magnet.
  • Galileo's Pendulum

    Galileo's Pendulum

    Galileo began his study of the pendulum while watching a suspened swing back and forth in the Cathedral of Pisa.
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey

    His Anatomical Exercise on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals recorded his findings.
  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke

    Used microscope to discover plant cells.