Thinkers of the Renaissance
Leonardo da Vinci
1452 – 1519
Mathematicsquotes
Leonardo da Vinci (1452) was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance — painter, scientist, engineer, mathematician, and writer.
There will be many which will increase in their destruction.
Michel de Montaigne
1533 – 1592
Philosophyquotes
Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne, commonly known as just Michel de Montaigne, was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance. He is known for popularising the essay as a literary genre. His work is noted for its merging of casual anecdotes and autobiography with intellectual insight.
The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
Nicolaus Copernicus
1473 – 1543
Sciencequotes
Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance polymath who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center. The publication of Copernicus's model in his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, just before his death in 1543, was a major event in the history of science, triggering the Copernican Revolution and making a pioneering contribution to the Scientific Revolution. Though a similar heliocentric model had been developed eighteen centuries earlier by Aristarchus of Samos, an ancient Greek astronomer, Copernicus likely arrived at his model independently.
Christopher Columbus
1451 – 1506
Technologyquotes
Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas. His expeditions were the first known European contact with the Caribbean and Central and South America.
The Eclipse That Saved Columbus by Ivars Peterson, Science News
William Cecil
1520 – 1598
Politicsquotes
William Caxton
1422 – 1491
Literaturequotes
Marguerite de Navarre
1492 – 1549
quotes
Marguerite de Navarre, also known as Marguerite of Angoulême and Margaret of Navarre, was a princess of France, Duchess of Alençon and Berry, and Queen of Navarre by her second marriage to King Henry II of Navarre. Her brother became King of France, as Francis I, and the two siblings were responsible for the celebrated intellectual and cultural court and salons of their day in France. Marguerite is the ancestress of the Bourbon kings of France, being the mother of Jeanne d'Albret, whose son, Henry of Navarre, succeeded as Henry IV of France, the first Bourbon king.
He who knows his own incapacity, knows something, after all.
Charles V
1500 – 1558
Politicsquotes
Words from November 7
"There will be many which will increase in their destruction."
Leonardo da Vinci
1452
"Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom."
Leonardo da Vinci
1452
"The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life."
Michel de Montaigne
1533
"Photos of his chateau, his personal belongings, and his grave"
Michel de Montaigne
1533
"The Eclipse That Saved Columbus by Ivars Peterson, Science News"
Christopher Columbus
1451
"He who knows his own incapacity, knows something, after all."
Marguerite de Navarre
1492