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Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. - William Shakespeare
Major Unit Assignments
APPARTS Essay: 1513- Excerpts from The Prince- Machiavelli
Art Analysis and Interpretation Assignment -Renaissance and Baroque Art
"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”- Orson Wells
Philosophy," he wrote, "is written in the great book which never lies before our eyes - I mean the universe - but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written. The book is written in the mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth." - Galileo
After reading the Renaissance section you should understand:
Renaissance politics, culture, and art in Italy.
The northern Renaissance that followed that in Italy.
Italian politics, wars, and foreign intervention in Italy by France and Spain.
After reading the Scientific Revolution section you should understand:
The astronomical theories of Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton.
The emergence of new scientific institutions.
The role of women in early science.
The relationship between science and religion.
New directions in philosophy and political science
The emergence of Baroque art
Textbook Reading Sections
Renaissance – p. 49- 63, p 66-68
Primary Readings - Renaissance
Is the “Renaissance Man” a Myth? p. 56
Pico Della Mirandola Oration on the Dignity of Man
Albrecht Durer - Self Portrait (image)
Martin Luther, The Bondage of the WIll
Leonardo da Vinci Plots the Perfect Man p, 59
Secondary Readings
The Renaissance Garden p 53
Outside Primary Readings
Michelangelo and Pope Julius
Textbook Reading Sections
Scientific Revolution – p. 157- 173
Primary Readings - the Scientific Revolution
Rene Descartes and Jonathan Swift Debate the Scientific Enterprise p. 164-166
Secondary Readings
The Science of Healthy Eating p 175
Outside Primary Readings
Copernicus Ascribes Movement to The Earth
Margaret Cavendish Questions the Fascination With Scientific Instruments
Galileo Discusses the Relationship of Science to the Bible
Potential Renaissance LEQs
To what extent and in what ways may the Renaissance be regarded as a turning point in the Western intellectual and cultural tradition?
Describe and analyze the ways that the development of printing altered both the culture and politics of Europe during the period 1450-1600.
Explain the ways that Renaissance humanism transformed ideas about the individual's role in society.
To what extent is the term "Renaissance" a valid concept for a distinct period in early modern European History?
To what extent and in what ways did women participate in the Renaissance?
Discuss how Renaissance ideas are expressed in the Italian art of the period, referring to the specific works and artists.
Analyze the influence of humanism on the visual arts in the Italian Renaissance. Use at least THREE specific works to support your analysis
Potential Scientific Revolution LEQs
Describe the impact of the Scientific Revolution on European thought and culture.
How did the developments in scientific thought from Copernicus to Newton create a new conception of the universe and of humanity's place within it?
Describe the new astronomy of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and analyze the ways in which it changed scientific thought and methods.
"Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night! God said 'Let Newton be, and all was light" The couplet was Alexander Pope's way of expressing the relationship between the Scientific Revolution and Christianity. What was the effect of seventeenth-century science on Christianity, and how did each react to each other?
Explain the development of the scientific method in the seventeenth century and the impact of scientific thinking on traditional sources of authority.
Assess the impact of the Scientific Revolution on religion and philosophy in the period 1550 to 1750.
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