People
Who was Thomas Aquinas?
He wrote Summa Theologica, argued that the most basic religious truths could be proved by logical argument.
Who was Jan van Eyck?
He was a Flemish painter.
Who was Johanes Kepler
He said that the planets orbit in ellipses and the planets closer to the sun orbit faster than those farther from the sun.
English philosopher who argued that people have natural rights, life, liberty, and property. Wrote the Leviathian
Who wrote the Prince?
Machiavelli
Who was Raphael?
An Italian Renaissance painter
Who invented the printing press?
Johannes Gutenberg
Who was Amerigo Vespucci?
A mapmaker and explorer who said that America was a new continent, so America was named after him.
Who was Thomas Hobbes
believed that people are born selfish and need a strong central authority
Chaucer
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
He was an Italian painter, engineer, musician, and scientist.
Who wrote Utopia?
Johannes Gutenberg
Who was John Cabot?
An English explorer who claimed Newfoundland for England while looking for Northwest Passage
Who is Robert Boyle?
Father of modern chemistry
He was an English poet and playwriter.
Who was Rembrandt?
Was a Dutch painter
Who wrote Summa Theologica?
Thomas Aquinas
Who was John Calvin?
A person who believed in predestination and who founded the Calvinist church.
Who was Isaac Newton?
He defined the laws of motion and gravity.
Who carried Calvins ideas to Scotland?
John Knox
Who was Albrecht Durer?
He was a famous Northern Renaissance artist.
Who was Dante?
He was an Italian poet and Renaissance writer.
Who was Martin Luther?
He challenged church to debate. And Wrote the 95 Theses thus starting the Protestant Reformation.
Who was Galileo Galilei?
Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars.
Who translated the Bible to English?
John Whycliffe