https://padlet.com/hannahj5912/62y0pr1bobo5jijc en-us 2023-01-13 19:11:45 UTC 2023-01-13 20:11:57 UTC hello@padlet.com hannahj5912 https://padlet.com/hannahj5912/62y0pr1bobo5jijc/wish/2443994963 Cosimo de' Medici is known for being the founder of one of the main lines of the Medici family that ruled Florence from 1434 to 1537. He was a patron of the arts and humanism and played an important role in the Italian Renaissance.]]> 2023-01-13 19:33:46 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahj5912/62y0pr1bobo5jijc/wish/2443994963 hannahj5912 https://padlet.com/hannahj5912/62y0pr1bobo5jijc/wish/2443998420 Johann Gutenberg's Bible is probably the most famous Bible in the world. It is the earliest full-scale work printed in Europe using moveable type. Printing with moveable type had been developed earlier in East Asia. The earliest type of this kind is documented in Chinese sources in the 11th century.

]]> 2023-01-13 19:37:29 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahj5912/62y0pr1bobo5jijc/wish/2443998420 hannahj5912 https://padlet.com/hannahj5912/62y0pr1bobo5jijc/wish/2443999634 On October 12, 1492, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus made landfall in what is now the Bahamas. Columbus and his ships landed on an island that the native Lucayan people called Guanahani. Columbus renamed it San Salvador.]]> 2023-01-13 19:38:51 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahj5912/62y0pr1bobo5jijc/wish/2443999634 hannahj5912 https://padlet.com/hannahj5912/62y0pr1bobo5jijc/wish/2444001967 David is one of Michelangelo's most-recognizable works, and has become one of the most recognizable statues in the entire world of art. Standing 13'5″ tall, the double life-sized David is depicted patiently waiting for battle, prepped with slingshot in one hand and stone in the other.]]> 2023-01-13 19:41:32 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahj5912/62y0pr1bobo5jijc/wish/2444001967 hannahj5912 https://padlet.com/hannahj5912/62y0pr1bobo5jijc/wish/2444002910 The Prince, political treatise by Niccolò Machiavelli, written in 1513. A short treatise on how to acquire power, create a state, and keep it, The Prince represents Machiavelli's effort to provide a guide for political action based on the lessons of history and his own experience as a foreign secretary in Florence.]]> 2023-01-13 19:42:37 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahj5912/62y0pr1bobo5jijc/wish/2444002910 hannahj5912 https://padlet.com/hannahj5912/62y0pr1bobo5jijc/wish/2444005936 It officially ended the religious struggle between the two groups and made the legal division of Christianity permanent within the Holy Roman Empire, allowing rulers to choose either Lutheranism or Roman Catholicism as the official confession of their state.]]> 2023-01-13 19:45:57 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahj5912/62y0pr1bobo5jijc/wish/2444005936 hannahj5912 https://padlet.com/hannahj5912/62y0pr1bobo5jijc/wish/2444006719 On May 20, 1570, Ortelius published the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum – Theatre of the World – the first modern atlas. The atlas that had 53 maps in its first edition was all the more significant in 16th century when world maps helped in showing discoveries, as well as communicating the presumed shape of the world.]]> 2023-01-13 19:46:54 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahj5912/62y0pr1bobo5jijc/wish/2444006719 hannahj5912 https://padlet.com/hannahj5912/62y0pr1bobo5jijc/wish/2444011750 René Descartes (1596–1650) was a creative mathematician of the first order, an important scientific thinker, and an original metaphysician. During the course of his life, he was a mathematician first, a natural scientist or “natural philosopher” second, and a metaphysician third.]]> 2023-01-13 19:52:46 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahj5912/62y0pr1bobo5jijc/wish/2444011750 hannahj5912 https://padlet.com/hannahj5912/62y0pr1bobo5jijc/wish/2444015163 Galileo was a natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and strength of materials and to the development of the scientific method]]> 2023-01-13 19:56:55 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahj5912/62y0pr1bobo5jijc/wish/2444015163 hannahj5912 https://padlet.com/hannahj5912/62y0pr1bobo5jijc/wish/2444016514 Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center.]]> 2023-01-13 19:58:16 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahj5912/62y0pr1bobo5jijc/wish/2444016514 hannahj5912 https://padlet.com/hannahj5912/62y0pr1bobo5jijc/wish/2444017288 Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory.]]> 2023-01-13 19:59:18 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahj5912/62y0pr1bobo5jijc/wish/2444017288 hannahj5912 https://padlet.com/hannahj5912/62y0pr1bobo5jijc/wish/2444019951 Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli, occasionally rendered in English as Nicholas Machiavel, was an Italian diplomat, author, philosopher and historian who lived during the Renaissance. He is best known for his political treatise The Prince, written in about 1513 but not published until 1532.]]> 2023-01-13 20:02:25 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahj5912/62y0pr1bobo5jijc/wish/2444019951 hannahj5912 https://padlet.com/hannahj5912/62y0pr1bobo5jijc/wish/2444022196 William Byrd was an English composer of late Renaissance music. Considered among the greatest composers of the Renaissance, he had a profound influence on composers both from his native England and those on the continent.]]> 2023-01-13 20:05:04 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahj5912/62y0pr1bobo5jijc/wish/2444022196 hannahj5912 https://padlet.com/hannahj5912/62y0pr1bobo5jijc/wish/2444022722 John Milton was an English poet and intellectual. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse and including over ten chapters, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval.]]> 2023-01-13 20:05:56 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahj5912/62y0pr1bobo5jijc/wish/2444022722 hannahj5912 https://padlet.com/hannahj5912/62y0pr1bobo5jijc/wish/2444023372 William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon".]]> 2023-01-13 20:06:53 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahj5912/62y0pr1bobo5jijc/wish/2444023372