Key Terms
To bring back to life
What is Revive?
Artist whose famous works include the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
The most famous playwright of all time. Was highly favored by Queen Elizabeth I of England
Who is Shakespeare?
Invented by Dutch eyeglass maker, Hans Lipperhey, in 1608. Galileo used this invention to make observations of space and the solar system.
What is Telescope?
What is flourishing merchant class, lasting trade links from the Crusades, financial growth of Florence, Italy, the fall of Constantinople?
The study of religion
Artist whose famous works include painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the David, and the Pieta
Who is Michelangelo?
Author of The Prince, a handbook for on politics & ruling. This author also supported absolute power.
Who is Machiavelli?
Accidentally created by a father and son duo, Hans and Zacharias Janssen, who made eyeglasses. Multiple lenses placed inside a tube would magnify objects. It was used to make many other scientific advancements during the time it was invented
What is Microscope?
Invention that measures atmospheric pressure. Works in a similar fashion as a thermometer
What is a Barometer?
A person or persons who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity.
What is Patron?
An important characteristic of da Vinci's painting of the Last Supper
What is Perspective?
Author of The Divine Comedy, an imaginative vision of the afterlife
Who is Dante?
Existed many years before the Scientific Revolution. Assisted sailors in maritime navigation, even when conditions were poor. Used the natural magnetic pull of the Earth to determine direction
What is Magnetic Compass?
New way of thinking where we have concern for human welfare, values, and dignity
What is Humanism?
Artists whose famous works include the School of Athens, The Wedding of the Virgin, and Sistine Madonna
Who is Raphael?
Scholar & poet of the early Renaissance, often considered the “Father of Humanism”
Who is Petrarch?
A model of the universe that opposed the geocentric theory. This model was proposed by Copernicus and supported through findings from Galileo.
What is Heliocentrism/Heliocentric Theory?
The most famous and richest patrons in Italy
Who were the Medici Family?
Things that have to do with on Earth, not in Heaven
What is Secular?
Artist who painted the Birth of Venus
Who is Botticelli?
A Dutch philosopher and Christian humanist. He is often considered the greatest scholar of the Northern Renaissance and was heavily influential in the Protestant Reformation
Who is Erasmus?
A complex invention made centuries before the Scientific Revolution, it was used to make astronomical measurements which would assist sailors in maritime navigation. It also showed positions of stars and planets, longitude and latitude, and varying time zones.
What is Astrolabe?
Renaissance is French for what word
What is Rebirth?