List of Renaissance Scientists (Important renaissance scientists list)

Renaissance Scientists

The main names of the renaissance scientists are given below.

Ptolemy

Ptolemy was an astronomer and mathematician during ad 100-170 whose idea of the geocentric theory that the earth is the center of the universe overpowered other astronomical thought until the 17th century. He has also been remembered for his contributions to the fields of mathematics, optics, and geography. Ptolemy made important historical inventions like the map of the known world that uses latitude and longitude. 

Nicolaus Copernicus

Copernicus was a Polish astronomer from 1473-1543 who was best known for his astronomical theory that the sun is at rest near the center of the universe and that the earth, spinning on its axis once daily, revolves annually around the sun. This theory is called the heliocentric or sun-centered system.

Johannes Kepler

Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer who made important discoveries that led to three basic laws governing the motion of planets, and these made him one of the chief founders of modern astronomy. Johannes was very interested in Copernicus’s theory and looking into it further. Eventually, he constructed a credible model of our solar system by using what Copernicus’s research had taught us and by using his own research.

Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei, often referred to as simply Galileo, was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher. Galileo had many achievements, including telescopic confirmation of the phases of Venus, discovering the four largest satellites of Jupiter, and the analysis of sunspots. Galileo also invented the improved military compass and other scientific instruments. Galieo played a major role in the Scientific Revolution.

Sir Isaac Newton

 Sir Isaac Newton was an English physicist and mathematician. Newton contributed to optics and shares credit with Gottfried Leibniz for the invention of infinitesimal calculus. Newton also formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation that largely influenced scientists’ thoughts on the physical world. He is considered one of the most influential scientists of all time.

Rene Descartes

Rene Descartes was a French philosopher and mathematician. He is considered the “Father of Modern Philosophy” and his book Meditations of First Philosophy is a textbook at most universities. He is also credited as the creator of analytical geometry, which was crucial to the discovery of infinitesimal calculus. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and is often used as an example of genius.

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon was an English philosopher, statesman, scientists, jurist, and author. He was very influential through his work, especially as a philosophical advocate and establisher of the scientific method. He has also been called the creator of empiricism, or the theory that all knowledge comes from sense-experience. The scientific method is still used today as a procedure of investing natural ideas or objects.

List of Renaissance Artists (Popular artists in the world)

Renaissance Artists

Details of the Renaissance artists; given bellow are few among the great list.

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo is one of the best Renaissance scientists, artists, and engineers. He dissected corpses to learn the anatomy of the human body, because he was influenced by humanism as well. He also studied fossils to understand the world’s history and was a great inventor as well. Some of his inventions include a multibarreled artillery piece, the helicopter-like flying machine, and a cross-section of a palace with subways for carriages.

Sandro Botticelli

Sandro Botticelli was born around 1445 and became a famous artist in Florence. Botticelli sometimes painted frescoes in churches all over Italy. He also created paintings that illustrated scenes of classical mythology. Sandro’s images were much more realistic than medieval artists; although, he focused on the emotion of the scene rather than trying to be precise.

Raphael Sanzio

 Raphael was a young artist who worked at the same time as Leonardo, but he was much younger. Raphael painted with ease and grace and became known as one of Italy’s best painters, and Italians especially loved the gentle Madonnas he painted. A famous work of art he made was the School of Athens which depicts a number of Greek philosophers.

Michelangelo

Michelangelo was another great Renaissance artist who painted, sculpted, and designed buildings. He painted one of the best-known Renaissance works-the ceilings of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Although, Michelangelo was a sculptor at heart who believed his talents were inspired by God, and he carved statues to show perfect visions of human beings as a symbol of God’s beauty and perfection. One of his most famous works of art is the Statue of David and Sistine Chapel.

Titian

Titian was a great artist from Florence that painted during the late Renaissance. He painted many portraits as well as mythological scenes. His works influenced many artists, possibly because he also had a habit to create painting completely from his imagination. He was known for having a strong interest in color, since he used all different kinds of colors in his paintings.

Jan Van Eyck

 Jan Van Eyck was a Flemish painter that lived during the 15th century. He created many portraits, notably Portrait of a Man in a Turban and Lucca Madonna. His designs and methods were often copied and reproduced. His motto, ALS IK KAN (“AS I CAN”), is one of the most recognizable signatures in the history of art.

Albrecht Durer

Albrecht Durer was a German painter, engraver, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist that lived from the late 1400s to the early 1500s. His woodcuts established a reputation and influence across Europe, causing to be regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance. He created numerous altarpieces, religious works, portraits and self-portraits, watercolors, and prints. His famous works include the Apocalypse series and Knight, Death, and the Devil.

Renaissance Writers List (Few among with details)

These are a few of the renaissance writers list among the huge list. 

Renaissance Writers

1)   William Shakespeare

     William Shakespeare was the greatest writer of the era born in 1564. He was an actor and a poet but is best known for his plays. He also wrote tragedies and comedies, and Shakespeare became one of the most well-known playwrights in England. Some plays he is well known for are Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, and Henry V.

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2)  Miguel de Cervantes

    Miguel was a Spanish influential writer during the Renaissance. He wrote numerous plays and works of fiction, including Novelas ejemplares in 1613. Cervantes was not widely known, however, until the publication of his most influential piece, Don Quixote de la Mancha. This novel was published in 1604 and made Cervantes extremely popular in Spain, and this novel tells of a country gentleman who searches for adventure in life.

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3)   Niccolo Machiavelli

     Machiavelli was a diplomat in Florence who tried to answer how could a ruler guarantee that he would stay in power by writing The Prince in 1513. Machiavelli claimed that people were greedy and self-centered. He argued that rulers should not be good, and that rulers should do whatever is necessary to keep power and protect their city, including killing and lying. Today, when someone is called a Machiavellian, it means that they are acting tricky and not thinking about the good.

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4)   Francesco Petrarch

Francesco Petrarch was a poet and scholar that lived in the 1300s. He was known for his Italian poetry and wrote many famous poems, such as the Canzoniere and the Triofi. He was also a vey enthusiastic Latin scholar and wrote most of his poems in this language. He died in 1374, but he would influence later writers such as Boccaccio and Shakespeare.

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5)   Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri, often simply referred to as Dante, was a famous Italian poet during the Renaissance. The Divine Comedy is the most famous of his works, and is often considered the greatest literary work in the Italian language. Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio are often considered the best Italian writers in history. He often wrote his poems in the Italian vernacular rather than Latin, a choice that would later influence literary development all over Europe.

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6)   Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer, usually referred to as simply Chaucer, is a famous Italian writer that wrote in the English vernacular. His is widely recognized for his book The Canterbury Tales, but he also many other books, including The Book of the Duchess and The House of Fame. He is an important figure in developing the English vernacular we use today because he English he used in his writing is the ancestor of today’s everyday English language.

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7)   Benjamin Jonson 

Benjamin Jonson (Ben Johnson) born on 11 June 1572 – died 16 August 1637, was an English playwright and poet, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularized the comedy of humors. He is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour^[3] (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c. 1606), The Alchemist (1610) and Bartholomew Fair (1614) and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry. "He is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I.

Jonson was a classically educated, well-read and cultured man of the English Renaissance with an appetite for controversy (personal and political, artistic and intellectual) whose cultural influence was of unparalleled breadth upon the playwrights and the poets of the Jacobean era (1603–1625) and of the Caroline era (1625–1642).

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