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This technology is often used in our modern world. It tells you the time and sometimes even the date. It was developed in 1410 by Filippo Brunelleschi.
What is a clock
100
Created many pieces of art but was mainly concerned with scientific innovations such as flying machines, tanks, and many more.
Who was Leonardo da Vinci
100
A late 15th-century mural painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan. It is one of the world's most famous paintings, and one of the most studied, scrutinized, and satirized.
What is The Last Supper
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Although gunpowder had already been invented by the Chinese in the 11th century, William Congreve developed a devastating technology that would launch a tube that could explode on impact.
What is a rocket
200
Italian physicist, mathematician, engineer, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the scientific revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations and support for Copernicanism.
Who was Galileo Galilei
200
painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is a cornerstone work of High Renaissance art.
What is the Sistine Chapel ceiling
300
This device was invented in 1590 by Zacharias Janssen and his father in Holland. It had two lenses and was used to see minuscule objects clearly.
What is the microscope
300
Portuguese explorer who became known for having organised and captained the first expedition from Europe to Asia by the west, rounding the Americas by south and crossing the Pacific Ocean for the first time, which resulted in the first circumnavigation of the Earth.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan
300
a painting by Hans Holbein the Younger in the National Gallery, London. As well as being a double portrait, the painting contains a still life of several meticulously rendered objects, the meaning of which is the cause of much debate. It is also a much-cited example of anamorphosis in painting.
What is The Ambassadors (Holbein)
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Although it was first conceived by Leonardo da Vinci a century earlier, Cornelius van Drebbel invented this new type of naval warfare in 1624.
What is the submarine
400
Danish nobleman known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations.
Who was Tycho Brahe
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a 1514 engraving by the German Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer. It is an allegorical composition which has been the subject of many interpretations. One of the most famous old master prints, it has sometimes been regarded as forming one of a conscious group of Meisterstiche ("master prints") with his Knight, Death and the Devil (1513) and Saint Jerome in his Study (1514).
What is Melencolia I
500
This new technology was used to spread the word about Martin Luther's 95 thesis and Protestantism.
What is the printing press.
500
Nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans" , is considered a heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. She was born to a peasant family at Domrémy in north-east France.
Who was Joan of Arc
500
One of the most famous frescoes by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted between 1509 and 1510 as a part of Raphael's commission to decorate with frescoes the rooms now known as the Stanze di Raffaello, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican.
What is The School of Athens