Renaisance People Flashcards
Francis Bacon
English
Scientist, philosopher, politician
Scientific Method’
Martin Luther
German
professor of theology, composer, priest, monk,
Protestant Reformation
Francesco Petrarch
Italian
scholar, poet, and humanist
most famous for having invented the sonnet.
Erasmus
Dutch
humanist, social critic, teacher, and theologian
philosophy
Michel de Montaigne
French
politician, philosopher,
inventing essays
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian
drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, paleontology, and cartography.
inventions and painting
Donatello
Italian
sculptor
work called David
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish
astronomer, astrology
first astronomer to formulate a scientifically-based heliocentric cosmology that displaced the Earth from the center of the universe.
Geoffery Chaucer
English
poet and author
The Canterbury Tales
Sir Tomas More
English
lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman,
Utopia book
Lorenzo de Medici
Italian
statesman, ruler
patron of artists, writers, and humanists.
Henry The Navigator
Portegues
was a prince
sponsoring voyages of discovery among the Madeira Islands and along the western coast of Africa.
Christopher Columbus
Italian
explorer
finding the Americas
Ferdinand Magellan
Portuguese
explorer
organizing expedition to circumnavigate the world
Francis Drake
English
sea captain, privateer, slave trader, pirate, naval officer and explorer
completed second circumnavigation of the world
