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C H A P T E R  13

R E N A I S S A N C E

The Rise of Modern Science

Battle of Anghiari

PRESENTATION:

THE RENAISSANCE

French for Rebirth (1350-1650)

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Leonardo da Vinci

(1452-1519)
 

Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, inventor, architect, musician, scientist, engineer, and anatomist.

VIDEO: Face of Leonardo

 

List of Polymaths

 

 

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Andreas Vesalius
Brussels (1514–1564)

•Copernicus was a polymath. He mastered:
  astronomy, math, physics, art, economics.
•He formulated the heliocentric cosmology:
  where Earth rotates daily on its axis,
 and it revolves yearly around the sun.
•Apparent retrograde motions are caused

 by the Earth’s motion.

•His remains were recently discovered.

 

Michelangelo Buonarroti
(1475 – 1564)


 Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. VIDEO


 List of Polymaths

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 


 

The Palestrina Pietΰ is no longer attributed to Michelangelo.

 

 

Filippo Brunelleschi
 (1377 – 1446)

Architect and Engineer

 

 

 

 

 

It was started in 1296.
The dome was completed in 1436 by Filippo Brunelleschi.

  

Cathedral of Florence

 

 

  PRESENTATION: Renaissance 

List of Polymaths

 

 
 

 

 

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