Renaissance Key Figures
Painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
Leonardo da Vinci
Martin Luther
These were the main causes of the Renaissance
Black Death, rediscovery of ancient Greece and Roman texts, humanism, moving back to the cities
He believed that the planets do not orbit the Sun in perfect circles but rather in an ellipses.
Johannes Kepler
"To be or not to be..." This English play write write many famous plays, including Romeo and Juliet.
William Shakespeare
period of drastic change in scientific thought that took place during the 16th and 17th centuries
Convicted of heresy by the Catholic Church, he confirmed the theory that the Earth orbits the Sun.
Galileo Galilei
He painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican while lying on his back.
Michelangelo
The Counter Reformation removed this practice from the Catholic Church
Selling of Indulgences
The Renaissance can be defined as
a period in European civilization that was marked by a revival of Classical learning and wisdom
He was determined to discover what caused the apple to fall on his head.
Sir Isaac Newton
He believed that all people were born "good" and that government had a duty to protect everyone's natural rights (life, liberty, property).
John Locke
This invention helped spread the ideas of the Protestant Reformation
Printing Press
The Reformation can be defined as
a 16th-century movement for the reform of abuses in the Roman Catholic Church ending in the establishment of the Reformed and Protestant Churches.
Initially discovered that the Sun does not orbit the Earth, but rather the Earth orbits the Sun.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Believed that everyone was born "bad" and only an absolute monarch should rule.
Thomas Hobbes
The belief that people were "predetermined" for Heaven is known as
Predestination
Machiavelli wrote about what in The Prince?
How the prince should expand and retain power, sometimes by unethical ways
Known as the "Father of Chemistry," he has a scientific law named after him.
Robert Boyle