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Between 1420 and 1436, admiring Florentines watched the architect, Burnelleschi build a dome ontop of the Cathedral of Florence. When it was done it stood 370 feet above street level.
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Masaccio was commissioned by Giuliano for the sum of 80 florins, to paint a major altarpiece, the Pisa Altarpiece, for his chapel in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Pisa.
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In 1417 Donatello completed the St. George for the Confraternity of the Cuirass-makers. The elegant St. George is one of the first examples of central-point perspective in sculpture.
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Lorenzo Ghiberti makes the first set of bronze doors for the Baptistery of the cathedral in Florence. They were magnificent and divided into panels, each showing a scene from the bible.
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Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel which took about four years to complete.It is part of a larger scheme of decoration within the chapel which represents much of the doctrine of the Catholic Church.
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William Gilbert discovered magnetism during the 1600s.
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"On the Motion of the Heart and Blood" was published in 1628 in the city of Frankfurt. This 72 page book contains the matured account of the circulation of the blood.
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Galileo designed the pendulum clocks in 1637. He thought of the idea while in church. His experiments with pendulums led to the development of more accurate clocks and watches.
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Robert Hooke used a microscope to discover plant cells in 1665.
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Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer in 1714. It is still used today all around the world. He created it to measure temperature and by putting class into a glass tube with marked spaces.
