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How does the Renaissance Inventors Benefit The World Today?
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Francesco Petrarch was a scholar and poet. Created the concept of Dark Ages, and his works such as Pietro Bembo. He is significant because he's the founder of lyrical poetry in which we still use today.
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Filippo Brunelleschi was an architect, designer, sculptor, engineer, etc. He is known for being the founding father of Renaissance architecture, and engineering. He created the linear perspective which benefits us today because many artists use this to give illusions of depth and space to their paintings.
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Lorenzo Ghiberti was a Renaissance painter, goldsmith, and sculptor. Ghiberti is best known for his creation Florence Baptistery. His book Commetarii is about important debts on the writing of art today's artists benefit because they use early ages perspectives primary sources.
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Donatello was an Renaissance sculptor. He was known for correctly sculpting the anotomy and was one of the greatest Italian sculptors. Donatello's significance was that he popularized the classicizing style that he inspires artists today.
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Fra Angelico was an Italian artist.He is mostly known for creating religious paintings, frescos, and altarpieces. For example, San Marco Altarpiece, The Last Judgement, and many more. His significance in the world today is he contributes to the development of European art that is still adopted by artists today.
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Michelozzo was one of the greatest pioneers of architecture of the Renaissance. He was known for being the pupil of Lorenzo Ghiberti and collaborated with Donatello. His innovations and craftsmanship still benefits the art movement today.
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Gutenberg was an accomplished German inventor, printer, publisher, and goldsmith. He is most known for the Gutenberg Printing Press.
He benefits us today because he started the blueprint of widespread information such as newspapers, internet, news, and everything that provides information.
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Massaccio is known for being the first great Italian painter's of the Quattrocento Period. He moved away from the International Gothic style to helped introducing the realism style which became adopted ever since.
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Leon Battista Alberti was many things such as humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, etc.,
For example, Alberti built Rucellai Palace and was architectural advisor for Pope Nicholas V.
This benefits us today because he wrote a treatise of architecture helping create the blueprint for modern day contemporary buildings.
https://www.worldhistory.org/Leon_Battista_Alberti/
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Andrea Mantegna was an Italian painter and studied Roman archeology. He created the Lamentation of Christ, Triumphs of Caesar, Death of Virgin, etc. He is known today for his experiments of perspective.
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Andrea Del Verrocchio was an Italian sculptor, painter and goldsmith. He created a workshop for artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Pietro Perugino, and Lorenzo di Credi. His greatest sculptor was Equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni. His art has been influential , valuable, and influence today's artists.
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Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian polymath, painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist's, and many more. He is known for creating many paintings, studying scientific methods, astronomy, and many more. He is beneficial because he has influenced many famous painters during the Renaissance time all the way to now.
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Niccolò Machiavelli was an Italian historian, author, philosopher, and diplomat. He's known for creating "The Prince" which studies the pros and cons of ruling. He is still significant because it talks about the difficulties of leadership and political actions which is adopted today.
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Michelangelo was an Italian sculptor, painter, architecture, and poet of the Renaissance. He developed western art that was similar to humanism and realism. He influences many artists and students today by his paintings Pieta, David, etc.
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Raphael was known as an Italian painter and architect. He was acknowledged for the visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Today he's beneficial for upcoming artists off of his famous work such as The School of Athens, Transfiguration, The Sistine Madonna, The Marriage of the Virgin, etc.
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Peter Henlein was a locksmith and considered the inventor of the watch. He is famous for inventing the first watch. It is beneficial today because it was the blue print of today's watches.
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Titian was an Italian painter during the Renaissance. He was known for his altarpieces, portraits, mythologies, and pastoral figure landscapes. He influences the world today by his delightful coloring scheme.
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Gerolamo Cardona was a mathematician, physician, biologist, physicist, chemist, etc. He created the combination locks that we use on lockers. He also is known for negative numbers, cubic quadric equations, and imaginary numbers in which we still study today.
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Gerardus Mercator was a Geographer, cosmographer, and cartographer. He studied geography, philosophy, chronology, and theology. He is known for astrolabes and astronomical rings that was used to study geography, astronomy, astrology.
His famous work helps today because navigators still use his longitude, latitude, and two-dimensional maps.
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Conrad Gessner was a physician, naturalist, bibliographer, and philologist. He researched zoology and considered the father of modern scientific bibliography, zoology, and botany. He studied classical languages, theology, and medicine that benefits us today.
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Michel de Montaigne was a Renaissance philosopher. He was known for influencing western writers such as Rene Descartes and Francis Bacon. He has influenced us today by popularizing the essay as literary genre which we've adopted today to Modern Literacy.
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William Gilbert was physician, physicist and natural philosopher. He is known for the studies of magnetism and how the motion of electric charge results in attractive and repulsive forces of objects. He is significant today for his book De Magnete.
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Faust Vrancic was a polymath and bishop. He is acknowledged for creating and successfully testing the parachute. He is known today for Machinae Novae which depicts machines, devices, and technical concepts.
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Francis Bacon was a philosopher, statesman, and known as the father of empiricism. Bacon served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. He is known today for the father of the scientific method and helped benefit the details of science and methodology.
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Galileo Galilei was known as the father of observational astronomy. How does he benefit us today. Benefits us today by creating modern physics, scientific method, and modern science.
He created the telescope, thermos-cope, and studied speed, velocity, and gravity.
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Cornellius Drebbel was an engineer and inventor. He was known for building the navigable submarine, contributed to measure, control system, and optics, and chemistry systems.
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Rene Descartes was a scientist, philosopher, and mathematician. He created the Analytic Geometry which connected geometry and algebra. He is known today as the father of modern philosophy.
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Giovanni Alfonso Borelli was a physiologist, physicist, and mathematician. He studied biomechanics and the first man to be considered a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus. He is known today for contributing to Galileo's Modern principle of scientific investigation, and hypothesis over observation.
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Evangelista Torricelli was a physicist, mathematician, and student of Galileo. He his theory that air has different weights at different heights and created the barometer. Meteorologists find this important today because they use it to measure pressures to check the weather.
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a mathematician, philosopher, scientist, and diplomat. He is known for being a prominent figure of history of philosophy and mathematics. He contributed to probability theory, biology, medicine, geology, and many things that we use and study today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz