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Rnnaissance people
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01/19/2004

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Francois Rabelais
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French humanist. was a doctor, scholar, monk, and author. wrote Chronicles of the adventuresof Pantagruel and Gargantua.
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Francis Bacon
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Serves as a Lawar and Judge at Greys in England. Helps Descartes create a process of observation an experimentation, called the scientific method
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Descartes
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Wrote Discourse on method and meditation. Worked with Bacon to create the scientific method.
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Sofinisba Anguissolla
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Italian artist. Paints portraits of the spanish monarchy.
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Cervantes
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Writes Don Quixote. Best known spanish wrighter of the renaissance
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Petrarch
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Italian writer. was an early humanist.
The wrightings of Cicero were a big influence on his writing
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Donatello
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Sculpted a life size man on hourseback. Other sculptures were done out of wood, marble, and bronze.
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Castiglione
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Wrote The Courtier, which talks about standard etiquette for behavior in Noble Courts. Also wrote about the ideal renaissance man.
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Cosimo de Medici
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Sponsored donatello, to paint a life size man on hourseback. also sponsored Raphael, and Michaelangelo. At odds with Machiavelli in politics in florence. A banking family that becomes the most powerfull political group in italy.
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Cosimo de Medici
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Sponsored donatello, to paint a life size man on hourseback. also sponsored Raphael, and Michaelangelo. At odds with Machiavelli in politics in florence. A banking family that becomes the most powerfull political group in italy.
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John Knox
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Prodistant reformer. From scotland. Faced accusation of murder.
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Robert Boyle
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Created a law that describes the relationship between mass and temperature. created matches.
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Leonardo De Vinci
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Painted The Last Supper,and The Adoration. created the original designs for the machine gun, portable bridges, and catapults.
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Kepler
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Discovered the eliptical orbit of planets around the sun.Assistant to danish astronomer Tyco Brahe
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Shakespeare
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english playwrite and poet. plays were comedies, and tragedies.
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Michaelangelo
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sculpted david out of marble.paints the Genisis in the Sistine Chapel
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Gutenburg
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Invents printing press. bible becomes most published book in europe, bostly because of him.
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Raphael
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Paints the School of athens, depicting himself, Michaelangelo, and Leonardo. Famous for his series of Madonna paintings
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Galileo
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faces trial and possible execution, for supporting Copernicus's Heliocentric theory. Mathimatically disprooves Aristitles Beleif that the rate of speed an object will fall, relates to its weight.
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Machiavelli
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Writes The Prince, and polititian at odds with the Medici family in florence.
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Copernicus
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Developed modern astronomy. states that the sun, not the earth is the center of the universe(heliocentric theory)
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Durer
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THe german "leonardo". created engravings by etching metal plates with acid.
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Thomas More
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Wrote Utopia. Executed by the english monarch for supporting the RCC, during the prodistant reformation.
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Newton
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creates intergral calculus, and defines laws of motion and gravity. discovers gravity.
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Erasmus
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Dutch humanists. Wrote "praise of folly". a book about comically exposing immoral behavior of his day. lifelong friend of st. Thomas More
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Martin Luther
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Starts the prodistant reformation. naild his 95 thesis to the church dorr in Wittenburg.
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King henry VIII
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Forced the act of supemacy, a series of laws that set the king at the head of the church.married 6 women, behead two of his wives, and divorsed 5
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Ignatius of Loyola
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To spread christianity, and eliminate heresy, he creates the organization of the jesuits
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John Calvin
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creates a theocratical atate in Geneva. beleived in predestination.
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Theresa of Avila
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Received the title dr. of the church. author and church reformer. changed the veiw of the church on women. Reformes convents and monastaries in Spain.
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Pope Paul III
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to deal with the prodisatant reformation, he called for the consil of TRENT, to end corruption, an reaffirm church doctrine. Excommuhnicated King Henry VIII of england.
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