The Renaissance

What was the Renaissance?

The Renaissance was a period of time when everything changed. This was like a rebirth for everyone, because they lost all of their knowledge, the forgot how to build and they had to start all over again. It was the time when they had to research and find out how their ancestors used to build their buildings and how they did, so it would be a really strong building. They had to start all over again. This spanned from the 14th to the 16th centuries.

Donatello and his statue of David

Donatello was an Italian sculptor. He was one of the greatest Florentine Sculpture before Michelangelo (1475-1564). He was born in Florence, Italy in 1386. One of his most famous sculptures is the fifteenth century the sculpture of David. This sculpture was created in 1408, the sculpture was the first life size nude statue since the ancient times.  His statue was small compared to Michelangelo's statue, David statue represented a heroic figure to the Florentine's who saw him as a symbol of their own struggle against power forces. David's sculpture does not look  victorious but more as a young leader when facing a giant, a bit unsure.

NICOLAUS COPERNICUS

Nicolaus Copernicus was born on February 19, 1473, in Torun Poland. He created his own celestial model of a heliocentric planetary system. Around 1514, he shared his findings in the commentariolus. His second book on the topic, De Revolutionibus orbium coelestium, was banned by the Roman Catholic Church not long after his May 24, 1543 death in Frauenburg,  Poland. In 1500's when everyone thought that the earth was the center of the universe, Nicolas that the sun was the center of the universe and that the planets revolved around the sun. Although his model wasn't completely correct, if formed a strong foundation for future scientists to build on and improve mankind's understanding of the motion of heavenly bodies. Ptolemy used to think that the earth was the center of the earth, but Copernicus felt that Ptolemy's  theory was incorrect. he died more than fifty years before Galileo become the first person to study the skies with a telescope. he also determined that the earth rotates daily on its axis and that the earth''s affected what people saw in the heavens. he did not have tools to prove his theories, but in 1600's astronomers such as Galileo would prove that he was right with his theories. Without his theories we might have not  discovered that the earth is not the center of the universe.

                                   

GALILEO GALILEI 

Galileo was born on February 15, 1564, in Pisa, Italy, he was a mathematics professor, who made observations  of nature with long lasting implications  of study of physics. he also invented the telescope and supported Nicolaus Copernicus theory of the solar system. his inventions of the law of motion and improvement of the telescope, helped farther the understanding of the world and the universe.He created a simple thermometer that could register variations in temperature but did not make any money off of it. In 1596, he built a compass used for aiming cannonballs. It was also adapted for civilian use in land surveying.   He made quite a bit of money off of this new invention, and he sold some of the compasses to his students many of which were wealthy members of aristocracy.  But the only reason he invented all of this its because he needed money for his family.

Leonardo Da Vinci 

Leonardo Da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452, in Vinci, Italy, he was a painter, architect, inventor and student of all things scientific. He is most known because of his art, two paintings that remain among the world's most famous and admired, Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Though the first actual helicopter wasn't built until the 1940's, it is believed that Leonardo Da Vinci's sketches from the late fifteenth century were the predecessor to the modern day flying machine,