Renassiance/ Reformation/ Scientific Revolution

  • Scientific Method
    1214

    Scientific Method

    It attempts to decrease the influence of bias or prejudice that takes place in the experimenter. It provides an objective which then improves their results. It makes sure that you observe and test before you make a statement of fact.
  • Petrarch
    Jul 20, 1304

    Petrarch

    Petrarch was an Italian poet. He is best known for the Iyric poetry of his Canzoniere. He is also considered one of the greatest love poets of world literature. He is the founder of humanism.
  • Perspective
    1337

    Perspective

    During the Middle Ages most paintings were based on religious scenes. Since they were less worried about realism, there wasn't really a need for linear perspective. In the Renaissance artists started to gain interest back in painting people, landscapes, and even religious scenes in a more real way.
  • Johan Gutenberg
    1395

    Johan Gutenberg

    Johan was a German blacksmith. He was known for inventing the mechanical movable type printing press. The printing press has widely been known as the most important invention of the modern era. It was impacted by the transmission of knowledge.
  • Humanism
    1400

    Humanism

    Humanism was important because it made people change how they thought about a lot. One of them was humanity, they got a different look on that which made them change how they look at that. On top of that it also made them change how they looked at art and philosophy.
  • Printing Revolution
    1440

    Printing Revolution

    The printing revolution made it easier for scientists to publish their work. It also helped scientists share their research amongst each other. Overall it helps people to share new ideas with many other people.
  • Lorenzo de' Medici
    Jan 1, 1449

    Lorenzo de' Medici

    He was an Italian statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic. During the Renaissance he was the most powerful and enthusiastic patron. He was most bright at being a Florentine statesman, ruler, and patron of arts and letters.
  • Leonardo da Vinci
    Apr 15, 1452

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Today he remains best known for his art. He has two paintings that remain among the world's most famous and admired. Those paintings are the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. He was very connected with art and nature.
  • Pope Paul III
    Feb 29, 1468

    Pope Paul III

    Pope Paul III was the Pope from 1534 to his death in 1549. He came to the papal throne in an era following the sack of Rome in 1527. He had uncertainties in the Catholic Church following the Protestant Reformation.
  • Machiavelli
    May 3, 1469

    Machiavelli

    Machiavelli was a fifteenth century writer. His most famous works was the book "The Prince". That book was about politics and power.
  • Erasmus
    Oct 27, 1469

    Erasmus

    Erasmus was a humanist who was the greatest scholar of the northern Renaissance. He was the first one to edit the New Testament. He was also an important figure in patristics and classical literature.
  • Copernicus
    Feb 19, 1473

    Copernicus

    Copernicus was a Renaissance and Reformation era mathematician and astronomer. He formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe. He triggered the Copernican Revolution and made an important contribution to the Scientific Revolution.
  • Michelangelo
    Mar 6, 1475

    Michelangelo

    He was a sculptor, painter and architect. He was widely considered to be one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance period. His worked showed psychological insight, realism, and intensity that is very rare and never seen before.
  • Thomas More
    Feb 7, 1478

    Thomas More

    Thomas More is known for his great book Utopia. He was also known for his sudden death which occurred in 1535. He refused to obey King Henry VIII as head of the Church of England. The Catholic Church then canonized him as a saint in 1935.
  • Raphael
    1483

    Raphael

    He is considered to be one of the most important artists in the High Renaissance. People compare him to Michelangelo and Leonardo because they're all famous artists at that time. Raphael is considered great because he changed the way people viewed art.
  • Martin Luther
    Nov 10, 1483

    Martin Luther

    Martin Luther is one of the most influential figures in Western history. His writings fractionalized the Catholic Church. His writings also sparked the Protestant Reformation.
  • Thomas Cranmer
    Jul 2, 1489

    Thomas Cranmer

    Thomas was a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury. He helped build the case for the annulment of Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon. That caused of the separation of the English Church from union with the Holy See. He was a supporter to the principle of Royal Supremacy.
  • Henry VIII
    Jun 28, 1491

    Henry VIII

    He ruled England for 36 years, which consisted of presiding over sweeping changes that brought his nation into the Protestant Reformation. He turned his country to a Protestant nation. He was the second tudor monarch. He was famous for his six wives during his search of political alliance.
  • John Calvin
    Jul 10, 1509

    John Calvin

    John Calvin was an influential French theologian, pastor and reformer during the Protestant Reformation. He helped developed what was called Calvinism.
  • Sale of Indulgences
    1517

    Sale of Indulgences

    A sale of Indulgence was a payment to the Catholic Church to get you out of a punishment for some type of sin. This was a way for the church to fund expensive projects. Despite the complaints about the church in the 16th century, the practice of selling "indulgences" raised the most opposition.
  • Heliocentric Theory
    1543

    Heliocentric Theory

    Nicolaus Copernicus proposed this theory first. Copernicus was a Polish astronomer. Heliocentric system was his first published book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium.
  • Francis Bacon
    Jan 22, 1561

    Francis Bacon

    Francis served both as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. Even after he died he still remained very influential through his works. He was also very influential as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution. The father of empiricism is what they called him.
  • William Shakespeare
    1564

    William Shakespeare

    He was an English poet, play writer, and actor. He was widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. Not only was he widely known for writing, but he was also the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
  • Galileo
    Feb 15, 1564

    Galileo

    Galileo made a lot of telescope discoveries. Out of them all he is most famous for his discovery of the four most massive moons of Jupiter. They are now named the Galilean moons. NASA named the mission to Jupiter, in 1990s, Galileo in honor of his work.
  • Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton was considered one of the most famous scientists in history. Throughout his lifetime he developed the theory of gravity, the laws of motion, calculus, and made optics such as the reflecting telescope. Newton made a wide range of discoveries in his time.