Renaissance+Science

body, Leonardo became a master at topographic anatomy, which is drawing muscles and any body parts that are visible on someones body. Da Vinci is probably the most famous person of the Renaissance, and he is well-known all across the world. || Johannes Gutenberg created the first printing press in 1450. The printing press was a large machine that sped up the process of copying a book or text. The press would put so much pressure onto one piece of paper with writing on it that it would stamp onto another piece of paper. This invention increased the sales of books, increased trade, and increased the number of people with a proper education. Before the invention of the printing press, people had to copy books by hand with a pen, which took a huge amount of time. After the print and press, copying a book took quite a while but it was a much easier and shorter process than hand writing it. Now that it took less time to produce a book, more books were being made and reached the public much faster. || Nicholas Copernicus lived during the Italian Renaissance. He believed that the universe was heliocentric, which meant that every planet in our solar system, the milky way, revolved around the sun, which was located at the center. Copernicus started the scientific revolution, which was a period in time when modern scientific explanations were discovered. Due to the fact that Copernicus's ideas contradicted the beliefs of the church, his thought of a heliocentric universe was very controversial. The Catholic Church believed that all planets revolved around Earth, so when Copernicus disagreed and people listened to him, they forced him to recant, or take back, his views. Nicholas chose to stay with his belief of a heliocentric solar system, so the church excommunicated him. The telescope had not been invented yet, so Nicholas had to observe the stars for a long period of time because they were so far away and there was not any way to magnify the view. ||
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 * Leonardo da Vinci was an artist who painted humans, but he wanted to be as accurate as possible in his drawings. So, he would disect dead human bodies to observe the anatomy inside. In his piece, The Proportions of the Human Body, Leonardo drew a naked man, and he made another over the original to show how that man's body would look if he moved it. Leonardo da Vinci was known as the Renaissance Man" because he was talented at an array of differrent subjects, he could paint, and he invented many useful tools. He painted pieces such as The Last Supper, Mona Lisa, St. Jerome In The Wilderness, and The Virgin of The Rocks. With his studies of the human
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