Transcript Museum of the Renaissance

By Julia
The Importance of Learning
 As a outcome of searching
outward there was a burst of
fascination in geography,
astronomy, anatomy, trade, and
inventing. Humanists believed
that it was important to train
young peoples characters and
bodies as well as their minds.
Humanists believed that people
could achieve great thing through
learning.
Prince Henry's school of
navigation
^^^The pieces of the little church left^^^
standing in the fortress.
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The precise location on prince Henry's school of
navigation is not known. It is generally agreed to that he
sited his headquarters at Sagres and made a settlement
on land presented by the crown. The only building still
standing and thought to have been around in more or
less its current form in Henry's day, is the bleak basic
little church within the stronghold. The school of
navigation was like a lure to the greatest brains in
Europe concerned with the marine sciences. Under
Henry's patronage, a community of talented scholars
came here to instruct and to study, and accumulated
and correlated nautical skill as it was brought back by
captains of sequential voyages to hitherto uncharted
places.
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I chose this artifact because I thought it contributed to
humanism by showing how navigation and exploration
expanded with new technologies.
The importance of the individual
 Humanists believed that
individuals should be skilled in
many different areas. They should
develop not just their minds but
also their bodies and spirits.
Leonardo da Vinci
 was an Italian polymath, scientist,
mathematician, engineer, inventor,
anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect,
botanist, musician, writer and an
individual. Leonardo has often been
related as the archetype of the
Renaissance man, a man whose
unquenchable interest was equivalent
only by his control of invention. He was
an individual he chose what he wanted to
do and what made him do it, and he
didn’t like women. He represents
individualism because he went out there
and said to him self “I don’t want to be
under control of other men I want to have
my own control” and did it.
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^^^^^^^Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa^^^^^^^
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci
I chose this artifact because I thought Leonardo da
Vinci was an individual along with his paintings and
inventions. He contributes to our understanding of
humanism by showing how he expressed his way of
thinking of the renaissance by painting and sculpting.
Contributing to society
 The invention of the telescope gave
people a better understanding of
the solar system.
 The invention of the compound
microscope in 1590 had allowed
people to get a first glimpse to a
hidden world they never knew
existed.
 Improvements in ship building and
navigation had resulted in the
discovery of 3 new continents
previously unknown to europeans
Compound microscope
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The invention in 1590 allowed people to get a first glimpse of
a unseen world they never knew existed.
the light microscope: an instrument that fits the human eye,
by means of a lens or combinations of lenses, to view
magnified images of miniscule objects. It made seeable the
captivating feature of worlds within worlds.
http://inventors.about.com/od/mstartinventions/a/microsc
ope.htm
Some point about the year 1590, two Dutch spectacle makers,
Zaccharias Janssen and his father Hans began experimenting
with these lenses. They put a number of lenses in a tube and
made a very essential discovery. The item near the end of
the tube appeared to be greatly expanded , much bigger than
any effortless magnifying glass could accomplish by
itself! They had just created the compound microscope
(which is a microscope that uses two or more lenses)
I chose this artifact because it made a big difference in
technology in humanism. It contributes to our
understanding of humanism by showing how technology
advanced even in the 1500’s , that’s 509 years ago.
Modeling themselves on the ancient past.
 The renaissance was
inspired by the ancient
cultures of Greece and
Rome. The renaissance
was soon transformed
into an age of
experimentation,
exploration, and
innovation. A
movement of religious
reform had resulted in
the creation of the first
protestant faiths.
Understanding of solar system
 The invention of the telescope gave
people a finer understanding of the
solar system. The earliest notable
working telescopes appeared in
1608 and is credited to Hans
Lippershey.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the
_telescope
 A telescope is an instrument designed
for the observation of far items by the
array of electromagnetic radiation.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescope
Galileo Galilei has been thought to have
made the telescope but he didn’t he made
one but not the first he made one much
better and improved from the Dutchinvented refracting telescope. It was Hans
Lippershey who actually invented the
telescope in 1608
http://telescope-foru.blogspot.com/2006/05/refractingtelescope-hans-lippersheys.html