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Lorenzo Ghiberti was a 23 year old goldsmith in Florence who spent 50 years creating two bronze doors for the Baptisry in Florence.
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Donatello was a 17 year old sculptor who wanted to show the strength and beauty of humans. His statue David was the first statue since ancient times to be large, and free-standing
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Brunelleschi was an Italian architect in Florence who proposed to put a cap on the cathedral. He built the dome from 1420-1436 that was 370 feet above street level when finished.
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Masaccio was the fourth genius of Florence's golden age along with Ghiberti, Brunelleschi, and Donatello he changed painting even more with the technique of perpective.
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Leonardo De Vinci was a famous Italian painter who's most famous painting was called the Mona Lisa. Scholars disagree on who the painting is accually of.
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Copernicus had left his country of Poland to study law, medicine, mathematics, Greek, and astronomy. He believed Ptolemy was wrong that the Earth stood still and that it revolved around the Sun.
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From 1535-1536 Mercator made terrestrial globes for several rich individuals. In 1537 Mercator constructed a globe of the stars.
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Galileo was an Italian mathematician and astronomer. Galileo discovered that swings of a pendulum take the same time everytime no matter is length.
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Rene Descartes was a French scientist who was the first philosopher to describe the physical universe in terms of matter and motion.
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Gabriel Fahrenheit was a German scientist who invented the themometer to measure tempuratures.
