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For the last month we have been looking at the role of individuals and their responsibility to society. Please post a comment here that not only identifies a "Renaissance" individual but also tells us briefly how that individual lived up to their responsibility to society.
posted by W Brown @ 4:36 PM
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Johannes Gutenberg was the creator of printing press. Because of his invention people could make large number of copies of their books and distributed them to the people. This helped people how to read and write. - Linsa M.
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blJohannesGutenberg.htm
9:16 PM
adding to what Linsa and Durkhanai have mentioned about Johannes Gutenberg.He demonstrated the power of the printing press by selling copies of a two-volume Bible for 300 florins each.Today the Gutenberg Bibles which have survived are sometimes called oldest surviving books printed with movable type.The Gutenberg Bible marks the beginning of a cultural revolution .The Gutenberg bible lacks many print features that we are not used to,which are word spacing,paragraph breaks.
-Jagmeet kaur
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Gutenberg
Adding to Durkhanai's post, it seems that the reason Gutenberg printed the bible in different languages is because Martin Luther took the first step. This shows us that people follow others and sometimes it does make a difference.
-Megan Harmon
adding to what durkhanai said, cpoernicus was one of the great polymaths of his age. 1491 was when he first encountered astronomy at krakow academy.copernicus worked for years with the royal prussian diet on monetary reform and published studies on the value of money. he also formulated one of the earliest iterations of the theory now known as "Gresham's Law".
-latoya johnson
wikipedia.org/wiki/nicolaus copernicus
Francis Drake was the second eldest son in his family. So when his family fled from the Roman Catholic Uprising (1549), he worked on a ship, becoming the captain of it when the original captain had died.
Later on, he traveled to the New World, starting off slave-trading (for the English)
He is well known for raiding a Spanish ship called the Spanish Silver Train. He managed to escape with a fortune of gold, but left behind silver because of the amount of weight.
He is also well known for being vice-admiral of the English war-ships when at war with the Spanish
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Drake
-Maya O.
Francis Bacon believed in finding information by practical means, such as studying, observing, and experimentation.
Not only was he a scientist, he was a philosopher. He defended the scientific community, and named religion and philosophy two seperate entities.
He was also a good writer. Some people believe (or at least, have claimed) that he was the one who had written the plays of Shakespeare
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon
-Maya O.
Vesalius was an anatomist from Belgian what made him important was how he was the 1st person to examine the structure of the human body. An observer named Galen made some scientific hypothesises about the human body. Vesalius questioned him and proved him wrong. -Christine Kernisant
As Linsa, durkhanai, and Jagmeet stated Johannes Gutensberg contributed to the Renaissance by the success of his new technology of the printing press and publishing of the Bible. He then distributed his copies of the bible all over Europe. The distribution of Gutensberg’s bible prompted knowledge and allowed people to how to learn to read. Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press also helped in the field of communication because instead of the previous method of writing it allowed information to be made and distributed faster along with educating people. It was even said that Gutensberg’s innovative thinking in creating the printing press and distributing his bible allowed him to attain success faster than many people even today. ~Shivani
As Linsa, durkhanai, and Jagmeet stated Johannes Gutensberg contributed to the Renaissance by the success of his new technology of the printing press and publishing of the Bible. He then distributed his copies of the bible all over Europe. The distribution of Gutensberg’s bible prompted knowledge and allowed people to how to learn to read. Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press also helped in the field of communication because instead of the previous method of writing it allowed information to be made and distributed faster along with educating people. It was even said that Gutensberg’s innovative thinking in creating the printing press and distributing his bible allowed him to attain success faster than many people even today. ~Shivani
nicolaus copernicus was born in 1473 and died 1543. he was a polish astronomer. he was the founder of moden astronomy . his father died when he was 10 years old so his uncle had to take care of him. his uncle gave him good education. he stufied mathematics, philosophy atronomy and astrology at the universities of bologna and padua. he become a lawyer, tax collector, a doctor military governor, judge vicar general of cononlow and a polish astonomer. he pulished a book on the revolution of the havenly bodies.
kemi ajirotutu
http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/renaissance/main/copernicus.html
Galileo Galilei
An astronomer and philosopher. Well known for improving the telescope and other astronomy related things. Also for the first and second laws of motion. Discovered four moons revolving around Jupiter.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei
- Valerie Villar
Adding to what Valerie said about Galileo:He watched the movement of Cathedral's chandlier as it swung back and forthto study motion. He designed a simple string pendulum that helped doctors take a patients pulse. In 1589, at 25, he became a professor of mathematics at theUniversity of Pisa.There he continued he continued to study motion.There he rolled balls and measured the speed at whisch they moved. Manpreet Kaur
Adding to Christine’s comment on Vesalius... His real name is Andreas Vesalius. He was born in the year of 1514. His father was a court apothecary. His grandfather was a physician. Growing up Andreas dissected cadavers of dogs, cats, and rats that he found on the streets. Later on he became a compulsion and dissect human bodies. He attended the University of Louvain. There he studied greek, latin, and hebrew. He died in April of 1564. Before his death he had some problems with the inquisition. (samantha r.)
Adding to what Maya said about Francis Bacon, he was good lawyer, a best known philosophical advocate and he was also a defender of the scientific revolution. He used the knowledge by experimentation, observation and hypotheses. Bacon also included his essays, the colours of Good and Evil and the Meditationes Sacrae. Both published in 1597. His famous statement is “Knowledge is power” is found in Meditations. He also wrote the Astrologia Sana and he expressed his belief that stars had physical effect on the planet.-Linsa M.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon
Geradus Mercator
Mercator was born on March 5, 1518 in Dumpelunde, Belgium. He was the first person to use latitude and longitutde for sailors. He also created a very accurate map of Western Europe. He died Dec. 2, 1594.
-chris chatergoon
Geradus Mercator
Mercator was born on March 5, 1518 in Dumpelunde, Belgium. He was the first person to use latitude and longitutde for sailors. He also created a very accurate map of Western Europe. He died Dec. 2, 1594.
http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/renaissance/
-chris chatergoon
Johannes Kepler was the main person in the scientific revolution. He was also a German mathematician, astrologer, astronomer, and a person who wrote stories that dealt with science fiction. Kepler is famous for his laws of planetary motion. He even wrote books about it such as the "Astronomia nova", "Harmonice Mundi, and the textbook which is called the "Epitome of Copernican Astronomy". He also worked on optics and helped Galileo justify the findings of the telescope.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler
--tiffany lau
To add to what Durkhanai, Latoya and Kemi said, Nicolaus Copernicus was born on February 19th, 1473 in the city of Torun (Thorn) in an autonomous province of the Kingdom of Poland. He was educated in Poland and Italy, but spent most of his working life in Frombork, Warmia, where he later died on May 24th, 2543. Before his death, Copernicus was an astronomer who provided the first modern formulation of a sun-centered theory (heliocentric) of the solar system in his epochal book, “De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium” (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres). Copernicus’ formulation of how the sun rather than the earth is at the center of the universe is considered one of the most important scientific hypotheses in history.
-Nishka Smith
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus)
Johannes Gensfleisch Gutenberg was born in Mainz, Germany in 1397. Gutenberg biggest thing in life was printing. He became working as a goldsmith in Mainz where he was born. he thought he could pay of his debts by doing so.
http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/time/gallery/gutenb.html
Navleen
Adding to what Maya said, Sir. francis Drake, was the first Englishman every to set eyes upon the Pacific ocean. Although Drake had man accomplishmennts in explaoration, Queen Elizabeth was reluctant to reward him beacuse of his pirating.Drake was a wanted man among the Spanish, and on his last voyage, to the West indies, his fleet was attacked by the Spanish.
www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_ figures/drake_francis
Piero della Francesca was not only a renaissance artist, but also a mathematician. Hwrote what is translated to be ,a short book on the five regular solids. Francesa wrote not about normal optics, but about "common perspective" which is used by painters. His views on perspective were the first of their kind, and influenced other artists to come.
www.unlv.edu/faculty/bellomo/Math714
Like Chris Chatergoon said Gerardus Mercator he was born on march 5, 1518. he decipline were cartography and geography. his maps and globes increased and exploration knowledge in people mind.: Bradley
adding on to what valerie and manpreet said galileo galilei was the best scienctist in the world. in 1632 he published and important book of dialogues concering the two chief world system: Taryn
In my opinion the greatest scientist of the renaissance was Leonardo Da Vinci. Although his experiments were considered unethical at the time, he provided the cornerstone and foundation to modern day science. Leonardo Da vinci is believed to be the inventor of the scientific method.
~Jasmine Garcia
Adding to what Taryn, Valerie and manpreet said Galileo was the greatest scienstist the world has ever seen. Galileo was so far ahead of his time and theres no denying that. Galileo measured the height of mountains on the moon before some of the smartes people in the world at that time had never even seen the moon through a telescope. I believe that without Galileo our knowledge of space would not be what it is now.
Matt M.
Adding to what Matt said...today in class we talked about a famous scientist by the name of Galileo. He believed that the sun was at the center of the earth. He drew phases of the moon that showed light reflecting on the other side. The church opposed of this theory because they believed that the earth is in the middle. They took Galileo to court...which he lost. He then had to publicly say that he was sick in the head and that the church was right.
-Sharemia Thompson
Adding to what Sharemia said, later on the church investigated the case and realized that Galileo was correct. He was a remarkable being during that time because he proved the church wrong...which was big issue.
-Andrea Dasent
acording to what chris chatagoon, domoique, and bradley said
mercator was born in march 5 1518 he did died in dec 2 1594. his maps helped people knownledge increased and it help them with trading. but he also spent time in jial he was in there for 7 months he was released because of the support he got from the univesity of levine. and he had also opened a cartograhic work shop.
kemi ajirotutu
http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/renaissance/main/mercator.html
adding to what taryn, valerie, manpreet, sharemia, and andrea said, galileo's idea of the earth revolvimg around the sun cause a huge problem in the community. the church, which was the center of everything, had a different idea. They believed that the earth is the center and does not move. They said God would not have put such wonderful creatures on earth, and it would not have been most important.
-Jheanelle G.
Leonardo Da Vinci's sketches and scientific drawings are essential to the growth and developement of the Renaissance. They are not only accurate but are way ahead of their time. His sketches of the human torso and fetus are extremely accurate.
~~Jasmine Garcia
Adding to what jasmine said Leonardo was also an inventor, he invented the levers and gears and it has been a great invention.
Jenifer Contreras
This is the website that i got my information
http://www.mos.org/leonardo/inventor.html
jenifer contreras
adding on to what valerie manpreet and taryn said Galileo was an important man he changedtheway many of people thought the earth moved. Many had believed that because the priest or pope told them that it was true but its not so he was a man who provedthat the earth is moving and everything goes around it. With his new technology (the teleoscope) he saw it moving. HArold Ramsawmy
Adding to what Valerie, Manpreet, and Taryn said.Galileo was a faous scientist that gave the theory of the sun being at the center of the universe. he had learned all this from reading books and using mathematics. he ran out of money in 1585 and drooped out of college to continue his intrests in math and science.
- Binit A.
Adding to what Valerie, MAnpreet , Taryn, and Binit said, Galileo gave the theory of gravity at the University of Pisa. he ahd also created the Law Of Falling Bodies that was thought of in 1592.
Akeem Ganee
Galileo was the first one to create the telescope that can see into the solar system and for them to see how the earth is position in the universe. after that he started to make books on his theories and discoveries of his foundings. he was a man that wanted to prove that the Pope wasnt always right. that the Pope can be proven wrong at times
-Binit A.
Like CHris Chatergoon, Bradley, Domonique and Kemi were saying about Gerardus Mercator, he was a Flemish cartographer of German Descent. He was educated by the famous humanist Macropedius in the Universty of Leuven. He did not travel often but he developed an interest for geography only for a living. He worked with Gemma Frisius and Gaspar Myrica to construct a terrestrial globe.
-Manpreet Walia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerardus_Mercator
Adding to what jasmine and jennifer said, not was leonardo di vinci a inventor. But he found a way of combining different inventions to make things that the public have never seen before, and things that would make everday life easier.
Robert Pabon
Adding to Jasmine and Jenifer’s comments on Leonardo Da Vinci, he was an extremely hard working scientist with a large range of areas of science including anatomy, zoology, botany, geology, optics, aerodynamics and hydrodynamics. Leonardo was thought to look at science differently then others. He actually observed science as it was happening in front of his own eyes, instead of reading about it in a book of someone else. He would ask simple questions, but answer them only through observing. Science was taken to a new level.
–Thomas A.
http://www.mos.org/leonardo/scientist.html
Galileo was a siencitist he studied astonomy. and he was in a big confrontation with the church because they didnt believe that the earth revolved around the sun because it was vice versa in the bible and back they believed everything the pope said so later on durin the trial the church won because they thought to say that if the earth revoveed around the sun then the earth would fly off and we would feel it spinning. Octavia,Ramos
Da vinci wished to create a drawing showing the proportions of man. He did so and call it "the Vitruvian man" which is the drawing displayed. This drawing reveals to us Da vincis work in using proportion. He connected the work of proportions to both his interest and a universal meaning.
-eli Sheer-
William Harvy was a physician who discovered how the circulatory system worked.He found how the heart worked and how the blood circulated.
adding to what valerie and manpreet said galileo in 1600 he invented the teliscope..he then observed the phases of both saturn and venus. and in 1611 he then observed sun spots.
-eli sheer-
The William Harvy post was by Larry
5:07pm
Larry Sutton
Adding to what Larry said, William Harvey was born in England in 1578. After graduating from Cambridge University, he went to Italy to study medicine at the University of Padua. Harvey graduated in 1602 with honors and went back to England. He then started practicing medicine.
http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/Museum/harvey.html
-Megan Harmon
Rene Descartes was born in La Haye, France in 1569. He invented analytic geometry and brought up the theory that the world was created by God, and the only two things inhabiting the world are matter and spirit. He wrote Discourse on Method, Meditations on First Philosophy, and Principles of Philosophy.
~Kerri McCord
http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/renaissance/main/descartes.html
To add to what Akeem, Binit, Taryn, Valerie and Manpreet said Sir Isaac Newton is known for advancing Galileo's theories on Gravity. He believed that planets had elliptical rotation and that Gravity is a force determined by an objects weight that keeps us on the ground instead of floating in thin air.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/renaissance
Courtney Wilson
Adding to what Binit, Akeem, Harold, Eli, and Octavia said, Galileo's scientific theory of the Earth defied the churches (along with many other brave men in the Renaissance). Galileo is well known for his work in astronomy such as the specific case in which he went against the church on the matter of scientific revolution. His fought for his heliocentric theory, in which the planets (including the Earth) revolved the Sun. The church believed in the geocentric theory in which the sun revolves around the Earth. Galileo went through extensive scientific research on this topic to prove the church wrong. Some of his arguments included the direction the wind blew and observation of other planets. The church’s arguments included “why don’t we feel the Earth moving if it is rotating?” and “why would God not put his greatest creatures in the center of the universe?” Galileo was also known for his IMPROVEMENTS on the telescope (not the creation of it). Ironically Galileo was quite a religious individual his own daughters were part of the convents. Finally he was a renaissance man because he questioned a system and fought for his beliefs and even discovered evidence to back him up. He also contributed to the major issue that still exists today, the separation of religion and science. ~Shivani
It's funny to see how during the renassiance the main problem holding back scientists in the search for new breakthroughs was the government forbidding them from sharing it with the world and today the main problem for certain scientists is the world not caring about what they are researching and experimenting for.
sorry, last post was by Steven Molnar
pretaining to what Domonique said about Rene Descates he opened the window of science and helped other scientist look at the world in the state of matter and mass. By doing so he gave other wondering minds a passage to open doors to knew dicovers such as Galeio and the Heliocentric theory.
Anthony N.
Johannes Kepler was born on December 27, 1571. He was a sickly child and his parents were poor. However, Kepler went on to become a mathematician and astronomer who proposed that the Earth and planets travel about the sun in elliptical (oval) orbits. He gave three fundamental laws of planetary motion. Kepler’s first law stated, “The orbit of a planet about the sun is an ellipse with the Sun's center of mass at one focus.” Kepler’s second law stated, “A line joining a planet and the Sun sweeps out equal areas in equal intervals of time.” His third law stated, “The squares of the periods of the planets are proportional to the cubes of their semi-major axes.” Johannes also did important work in optics and geometry. He died in Regensburg in 1630.
-Kiara Edwards
www.johanneskepler.com
According to what Kemi said, Nicolaus Copernicus was the son of a prosperous merchant. He was raised by his uncle after his father died. Copernicus went to university of Krakow and there he became famous for Mathematics, Philosophy, and Astronomy curriculum. Since he was interested in these subjects, this led him to study further about Liberal arts at Bologna. Copernicus was a brilliant student all throughout his studies.
- Simran Kaur
Andreas Vesalius was yet another man of science durring the renaissance. He was born in 1514 and died in 1564. He disected human bodies to find out more about thier anatomy. he recorded his findings in books. What he found out crlared up many mistries that were around at that time about the human body.
http://oz.plymouth.edu/~biology/history/vesalius.html and http://encarta.msn.com/media_461547216/Renaissance_Science.html
Math and Science are closely releated. In the years of the renaissance several advances in the field of math were made. These new advancements are still used today and are a major part of life. In 1514 Vander Hoecke started to use the + and - sign. In 1540 a person by the name of Ferrari came up with the formuka to solve quartic equations.
Johannes Kepler was important factor in the scientific revolution, was a German mathematician, astrologer, astronomer, and an early writer of science fiction stories. He is best known for his laws of planetary motion. -Jayson Gonzalez
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler
William Occam/Ockham was born 1285 and died 1349. He was pronounced as Doctor during the Renaissance time period. His hometown was surrey, England. His school was the "Greatest exponent of nominalist school." When accepted by Issac Newton, his "razor" was established as part of the foundation of science.
Information found on http://www.candleinthedark.com/renaissance.html
-John Navas
Sir Francis Bacon was born 1561 and dies 1626. His hometown was London, England. He was a Strict Empiricist.
His greatest achievements were that he was the first to point out various confounds in Science and on Metaphysics and his own epistemology.
Another great achievement is one we similarly use today. The "Experimental Method!" 1) Observe 2) Hypothesize Cause and effect 3) Experiment - rule out alternate explanations. (Modern additions: 4) Statistical examination of data 5) Publish)
Information found on http://www.candleinthedark.com/renaissance.html
-John Navas
adding to what john said sir francis bacon began his professional life as a lawyer, but he has become best known as a philosophical advocate and defender of the scientific revolution.
-alex pineiro
thomas egerton the son of Sir Richard Egerton of Cheshire, he was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford. He was known as Lord Chancellor Ellesmere, receiving that title in 1603. He resigned many offices a few weeks before his death and was promised the Earldom of Bridgewater, but did not live to receive it. He had created Baron Ellesmere on 21 July 1603, and Viscount Brackley on 7 November 1616.
-alex pineiro
adding to what Domonique And Anthony said Rene Descartes was a great contibuter to science with the theory of describing the earth in the matter of mass. He opened the door to other great scientist like Albert Enstien
Case Blakeney
adding to what Domonique And Anthony said Rene Descartes was a great contibuter to science with the theory of describing the earth in the matter of mass. He opened the door to other great scientist like Albert Enstien
Casey Blakeney
Adding to Eli, Jasmine, Jennifer, Thomas, & Robert, Da Vinci made advancements in science way ahead of his time. As Eli mentioned, his sketch of The Vitruvian Man displayed the proportions of the human body and the connections to the universe.He made detailed drawings of human anatomy which are still highly regarded today.
-Alyssa Cumberbatch
All of these people from the renaissance show alot of effort into proving the Church and the Pope arent the ones you have to listen to all the time. all of these men changed the way we lokk at the world today. they have influence the people of to and to open their minds and explore.
Akeem Ganee
Adding to what Megan said. Johannas Guthenburg was a man that made a difference on the way the people looked at the church. he opened the minds of many monks and sevants. to let them think different and make choices of their own
Akeem Ganee
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