Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment People
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Niccolo Machiavelli | The Prince |
| Baldassare Castiglione | The Book of the Courtier |
| Giotto | Madonna and Child |
| Michelangelo | David, Sistine Chapel: Creation of Man- Last Judgement |
| Leonardo Da Vinci | Virtuvian Man, Distance from Earth to Moon, Sketches of Human Muscle System, Mona Lisa, Last Supper |
| Raphael | Castiglione, Entombment, Transfiguration, St. Michael vanquishing Satan |
| Botticelli | Birth of Venice, La Primavera |
| Titan | Charles V, Three Ages of Man, The Concert |
| Bernini | Ecstasy of St. Theresa, Apollo and Daphne, David |
| Correggio | Leda and the Swan |
| Giambologna | Mercury |
| Albrecht Durer | The Seven Sorrows, Lamentation of Christ |
| Jan Van Eyck | Man with a Pink |
| Pieter Bruegel | Peasant Dance, Winter Landscape, Proverbs |
| Johanne Vermeer | The Astronomer, The Geographer |
| Martin Luther | German Monk; nails 95 theses to castle door at Wittenberg |
| Henry VIII | starts Anglican church because of Pope's refusal to grant divorce |
| Jean Calvin | starts religion based on predestination |
| St. Ignatius | started religious order called Jesuits |
| Oliver Cromwell | led English civil war |
| Copernicus | Polish Monk; heliocentric theory |
| Johannes Keppler | builds on the astronomical data of Copernicus |
| Galileo | Italian scientist; published and builds off the works of Copernicus |
| William (John) Harvey | English physician; circular movement of blood; heart as central pumping station |
| Francis Bacon | English Scientist; empirical research |
| Rene Descartes | French scientist, author, philosopher; skepticism |
| Isaac Newton | Principa Mathematic; principles for all motion; theory of gravity |
| Johannes Gutenburg | introduced printing press to Europe |
| Louis XIV | french monarch personified absolute monarchy; Versailles |
| Frederick the Great | King of Prussia; enlightened despotism; expands freedom of religion |
| Adam Smith | Wealth of Nations |
| Denis Diderot | Encyclopedia |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | Vindication of the rights of women |
| Erasmus | Praise of Folly |
| Thomas Hobbes | Levaithan; "social contract theory" |
| Jean -Jacque Rosseau | Social contract; federalism |
| Baron de Montesquieu | Spirit of the Laws; checks and balances |
| Bourbon dynasty | first model of absolute monarchy |
| Habsburg | imitated absoulte monarchy in Holy Roman Empire and Spain |
| John Locke | Essay Concerning Human Understanding; Two Treaties on Government |
| Thomas More | Utopia |
| Cervantes | Don Quixote |
| Shakespeare | Richard III, The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet |
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