Question

Renaissance or rebirth brought about drastic changes in art, literature and science. In this context, write short notes on the following :—

(a) Leonardo Da Vinci

(b) William Shakespeare

(c) Copernicus​

Answer 1

Answer:

(a) Leonardo da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian man who lived in the time of the Renaissance. He is famous for his paintings,[1] but he was also a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician, and a writer. Leonardo wanted to know everything about nature. He wanted to know how everything worked. He was very good at studying, designing and making all sorts of interesting things

(b) William Shakespeare (bapt. 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616)[a] was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist.[2][3][4] He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard").[5][b] His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays,[c] 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.[7] They also continue to be studied and reinterpreted.

(c) Nicolaus Copernicus[2] (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Polish astronomer.[3] People know Copernicus for his ideas about the sun and the earth. His main idea was that our world is heliocentric (helios = sun). His theory was that the sun is in the middle of the solar system, and the planets go around it. This was published in his book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) in the year that he died.

Answer 2

Answer:

LEONARDO DA VINCI:

he was a great painter , sculptor,musician and a scientist. Vinci received no formal education beyond basic reading,writing and maths,but his father appreciate his artistic talent and apprenticed him at around the age of 15 to the noted sculptor and painter Andrea Del Varrocchio of Florence. For about decade,Vinci refined his painting and sculpting technique and trained in mechanical art

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

He was an English poet playwright and actor who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world pre eminent dramatist

COPERNICUS

He was a mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the sun rather than the earth in the center of the universe