The City of Florence
How could rich residents afford patrons of talented artists and thinkers?
Banking along with wood trade, created wealth that could support art and architecture.
During the Renaissance, it was not just a time of progress in the arts. Scholars and others also made great advances in___ and ____.
Science and mathematics.
Renaissance Florence was ruled by a powerful family known as
Medici
Most of what people believed about the natural world was based on
Ancient Greek and Roman texts.
Florence was Italy leading trade center and had sculptors who achieved
Achieved great works of art, wealth, and fame during the Renaissance.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci
An artist, a scientist, an engineer, and an inventor who studied under artists in Florence and did his early work there.
People from all over the world came to Florence and both learned something new.
Florence had good schools, libraries and artists while they got the new ideas of technology.
Who was Girolamo Cardano?
Solve complex equations in algebra and did pioneering work in probability, the science of chance.
Florence had massive _________________ and traded across Europe.
Woolen cloth trading.
Galileo Galilei was the first person to build a telescope. What did he discover with his telescope?
He discovered sunspots and the moons of the planet Jupiter with his telescope.