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Important people and events during Renaissance period?

Hello~ I have need a timeline including 6 important people and events from the Renaissance and Exploration periods in history(I have to show the events and individuals that shaped world history) \I need to include.... -Date of events and individuals -3 important induviduals and 3 important events -prove that events and induviduals impacted history. Also... I only found out that invention that Gutenburg made was very important and also the plague (disease) was important event that happened during the early Renaissance period (1350-1450?) but can you tell me why this events and this person impated history? Please help me ......

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2. Technical drawings of artist-engineers The revived scientific spirit of the age can perhaps be best exemplified by the voluminous corpus of technical drawings which the artist-engineers left behind, reflecting the wide variety of interests the Renaissance Homo universalis pursued. The establishment of the laws of linear perspectivity by Brunelleschi gave his successors like Taccola, Francesco di Giorgio Martini or Leonardo da Vinci a powerful instrument to depict mechanical devices for the first time in a realistic manner. The extant sketch books give modern historians of science invaluable insights into the standards of technology of the time. Renaissance engineers showed a strong proclivity to experimental study, drawing a most wide variety of technical devices, many of which appeared for the first time in history on paper. However, these designs were not always intended to be put into practice, and often practical limitations impeded the application of the revolutionary designs. For example, da Vinci's ideas on the conical parachute or the winged flying machine were only applied much later. While earlier scholars showed a tendency to attribute inventions based on their first pictorial appearance to individual Renaissance engineers, modern scholarship is more prone to view the devices as products of a technical evolution which often went back to the Middle Ages.Astronomy The astronomy of the late Middle Ages was based on the geocentric model described by Claudius Ptolemy in Antiquity. Probably very few practicing astronomers or astrologers actually read Ptolemy's Almagest, which had been translated into Latin by Gerard of Cremona in the 12th century. Instead they relied on introductions to the Ptolemaic system such as the De sphaera mundi of Johannes de Sacrobosco and the genre of textbooks known as Theorica planetarum. For the task of predicting planetary motions they turned to the Alfonsine Tables, a set of astronomical tables based on the Almagest models but incorporating some later modifications, mainly the trepidation model attributed to Thabit ibn Qurra. Contrary to popular belief, astronomers of the Middle Ages and Renaissance did not resort to "epicycles on epicycles" in order to correct the original Ptolemaic models—until one comes to Copernicus himself. Sometime around 1450, mathematician Georg Purbach (1423–1461) began a series of lectures on astronomy at the University of Vienna. Regiomontanus (1436–1476), who was then one of his students, collected his notes on the lecture and later published them as Theoricae novae planetarum in the 1470s. This "New Theorica" replaced the older theorica as the textbook of advanced astronomy. Peurbach also began to prepare a summary and commentary on the Almagest. He died after completing only six books, however, and Regiomontanus continued the task, consulting a Greek manuscript brought from Constantinople by Cardinal Bessarion. When it was published in 1496, the Epitome of the Almagest made the highest levels of Ptolemaic astronomy widely accessible to European astronomers for the first time. The last major event in Renaissance astronomy is the work of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543). He was among the first generation of astronomers to be trained with the Theoricae novae and the Epitome. Shortly before 1514 he began to explore a shocking new idea that the Earth revolves around the Sun. He spent the rest of his life attempting a mathematical proof of heliocentrism. When De revolutionibus orbium coelestium was finally published in 1543, Copernicus was on his deathbed. A comparison of his work with the Almagest shows that Copernicus was in many ways a Renaissance scientist rather than a revolutionary, because he followed Ptolemy's methods and even his order of presentation. In astronomy, the Renaissance of science can be said to have ended with the truly novel works of Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) and Galileo Galilei (1564–1642). [edit] Geography and the New World In the history of geography, the key classical text was the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemy (2nd century). It was translated into Latin in the 15th century by Jacopo d'Angelo. It was widely read in manuscript and went through many print editions after it was first printed in 1475. Regiomontanus worked on preparing an edition for print prior to his death; his manuscripts were consulted by later mathematicians in Nuremberg. The information provided by Ptolemy, as well as Pliny the Elder and other classical sources, was soon seen to be in contradiction to the lands explored in the Age of Discovery. The new discoveries revealed shortcomings in classical knowledge; they also opened European imagination to new possibilities. Thomas More's Utopia was inspired partly by the discovery of the New WorldWith writers such as Machiavelli, Renaissance politics and lifestyles evolved away from medieval norms. People began questioning authority and coming up with ideas that might have seemed alien or evil to the medieval world, such as that "the ends justify the means" and that the Bible might contain some error. Dear, Peter. Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500–1700. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. Debus, Allen G. Man and Nature in the Renaissance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Grafton, Anthony, et al. New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992. Hall, Marie Boas. The Scientific Renaissance, 1450–1630. New York: Dover Publications, 1962, 1994. Artists of the Low Countries Main articles: Early Netherlandish painting for 15th century artists, Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting for 16th century artists Jean Bellegambe (c.1470-1535) Hieronymus Bosch (c.1450-1516) Dirk Bouts Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1525-1569) Robert Campin (c.1380-1444) Petrus Christus (1410/1420-1472) Jacques Daret Gerard David (c.1455–1523) Hubert van Eyck (1366?-1426) Jan van Eyck (1385?-1440?) Geertgen tot Sint Jans Hugo van der Goes Adriaen Isenbrant (c.1490-1551) Limbourg brothers Quentin Matsys (1466-1530) Hans Memling (c.1430-1494) Joachim Patinir Roger van der Weyden (Rogier de la Pasture) Albrecht Altdorfer (c.1480-1538) Hans Baldung (c.1480-1545), Alsatian Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515-1586) Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) Matthias Grünewald (c.1470-1528) Hans Holbein the Elder (c.1460-1524) Hans Holbein the Younger (c.1497–1543) Ambrosius Holbein (1494-1519) [edit] French artists Jean Fouquet Jean Clouet Francois Clouet Nicolas Froment Jean Hey Simon Marmion Enguerrand Quarton Master of Moulins [edit] Italian artists Leone Battista Alberti (1404-1472) Fra Angelico (c.1395-1455) Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337) Donatello Sandro Botticelli Masaccio Domenico Veneziano Filippo Lippi Andrea del Castagno Piero di Cosimo Paolo Uccello Antonello da Messina Pisanello Andrea Mantegna Luca Signorelli Alessio Baldovinetti Piero della Francesca Masolino Andrea del Verrocchio Domenico Ghirlandaio Benozzo Gozzoli Carlo Crivelli Leonardo Da Vinci [edit] Spanish Artists Bartolomé Bermejo Ayne Bru Juan de Flandes Jaume Huguet Pablo de San Leocadio Pere Serafi [edit] Works Ghent Altarpiece, by Hubert and Jan van Eyck The Arnolfini Portrait, by Jan van Eyck The Portinari Triptych, by Hugo van der Goes [edit] Main viewing locations Musee Communal des Beaux-Arts, Bruges, Belgium Groeningemuseum, Bruges, Belgium Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain - for works of Hieronymus Bosch Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery, London - opened in 1991 Technology Date Author Treatise Comment Pile driver 1475 [1] Francesco di Giorgio Martini Trattato di Architectura Drawing of such a device whose principle must be according to the Brazilian historian of technology Ladislao Reti "considered original with Franceso".[2] Centrifugal pump 1475 [1] Francesco di Giorgio Martini Trattato di Architectura Water or mud-lifting machine "that must be characterized as the prototype of the centrifugal pump".[1]
3. Gutenberg invented the printing press which allowed for the mass copying of text. This revolutioned education now that more texts were available to study..Moreover, it was one of the reasons for the spread of the Protestant reformation (lending toward a break from the Catholic church) which changed the social and economic landscape of Europe. One reason the plague was important was because it wiped out a third of the population which actually led to a better lifestyle for those left living since more resources were available.
4. gutenburgs movable type, some even think he this is responsible for the renaissance martin luther and the reformation art flourished, michaelangelo, da vinci. you didnt have to create only religious art rise of the merchant class god, a lot to tell. why dont you just go to the historychannel.com and get a time-line there and create your own from that?