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Period: 476 to Mar 9, 1350
Middle Ages
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Period: Mar 9, 1350 to
Renaissance Era
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Mar 9, 1403
Leonardo da Vinci
He was a painter and scultpor in Italy, but also traveled to France. He is most famous for the Mona Lisa which he painted in 1403 to 1407. -
Mar 9, 1403
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Ghiberti was one of the earliest sculptors of the Renaissance. He developed techniques for showing perspective. He is most famous for the set of bronze doors. He started them in 1403 and completed them in 1424. -
Mar 9, 1408
Donatello
He was a famous scultpor that lived in Florence, Italy. He is most famous for his scultpor The David which was built in 1408. -
Mar 9, 1418
Filippo Brunelleschi
He was a great sculptor and architect of the early Renaissance. His most famous contribution was the design of the dome of the cathedral of Florence. He worked on it from 1418 to 1436. -
Mar 9, 1460
Sandro Botticelli
Sandro Botticelli is a famous Italian painter and artist. He is most famous for Spring and the Birth of Venus. He started painting in1460. -
Mar 9, 1507
Nicolaus Copernicus
He developed sun-centered theory. The sun-centered theory is a theory that he said the sun was the center of the universe and not earth.Sometime between 1507 and 1515 he completed his theory in Italy. -
William Gilbert
William advanced the study of magnetism. William's study of magnetism wasn't noticed until he publish the book De Magnete in England. -
Galileo Galilei
He designed the pendulum clock. His first biographer, Vincenzo Viviani, states that he began his study of pendulums after he watched a suspended lamp swing back and forth in the cathedral of Pisa when he was still a student there. Galileo's first notes on the subject date from 1588, but he did not begin serious investigations until 1602. -
Robert Hooke
Robert used a microscope to discover plant cells. Robert discoverd the plant cells in London, England.Hooke viewed a thin cutting of cork he discovered empty spaces contained by walls, and termed them pores, or cells which lead to the plant cells. -
Gabriel Fahrenheit
He invented the mercury thermometer. Gabriel was German.
