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First Modern Engineer

First innovative problem solver

Created machines specially for each project he did.

Known as a master goldsmith

Built and rebuilt military fortifications

Used geometry and symmetry while using the simplest materials

Developed the use of linear perspective.

Father of renaissance architecture

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Key designer in Architect

Artist

Goldsmith

Sculptor

Planner

Sole construction supervisor

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"I propose to build for eternity."

"Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honorable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design."

On his grave reads " Both the magnificent dome of this famous church and many other devices invented by Filippo the architect bear witness to his superb skill. Therefore,  a grateful country that will always remember buries him here in the soil below."

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The Cathedral of Santa Maria or also known as Brunelleschi's Dome.

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Finest example of Rennisance civil architecture

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Parish Church of the Medici

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Has 38 side chapels within.

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Masterpiece of the Renissance.

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Many paintings were of Mary and Jesus. Brunelleschi did many paintings on religious figures.

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Painting of Angels and Saints on the ceilings of the cathedrals.

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Linear perspective, a system of creating an illusion of depth on a flat surface. All parallel lines in a painting or drawing using this system converge in a single vanishing point.

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Brunelleschi made a big impact on Architecture as his work was a model for his followers. He developed the concept of linear perspective, showing depth on a flat surface. He also created the founding hospitals which still stand today. He wrote 358 illustrations that still help people with architecture today. He also brought new ways of building including:

Scaffolding

Hoists

Arches

Lighter Masonry

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He didn't invent the telescope Dutch eyeglass maker Hans Lippershey did.

Galileo was sentenced to life in prison by the Roman Inquisition.

He spent his final years under house arrest.

His middle finger is at a museum...

The University of Pisa hired Galileo as a professor for mathematics, but he was difficult to work with because he was inappropriate with his students, the University then chose not to renew his contract.

He was a bad and dishonest scientist.