Renaissance Science and Leadership Check-In

Put the steps of the Scientific Method in the correct order.

• Identify the problem

• Record and analyze data

• Experiment to test the hypothesis

• State a conclusion

• Form a hypothesis

What area(s) saw a great deal of advancement during the Renaissance?

• Medicine

• Astronomy

• Mathematics

• All Three

Draw the model of the Solar System proposed by Galileo and Copernicus that caused a lot of controversy during the Renaissance.

Answer explanation

The important part of the diagram is ensuring that the Sun in the center.

Before this period, people thought the Earth was in the center.

Early Renaissance healers used ​ (a)   to treat many ailments.

• leeches
• bears
• spiders
• potatoes
• fire

The study of the human body is called ...

• Astrology

• Anatomy

• Astronomy

• Bodyology

What is one of the reasons that mathematics was important during the Renaissance?

Answer explanation

Mathematics were important for a number of things:

Interpreting data from the scientific method

Keeping track of money in a growing economy

Art

Mapping

Match the following people to their description

• Humanist leader who believed that rulers should communicate with their subjects

• Leonardo Da Vinci

• Painter, sculptor and inventor who exemplifies the many talents valued by humaists

• Girolamo Savonarola

• Nailed 95 Theses to the Church door to protest corruption

• Niccolo Machiavelli

• Organized a bonfire to burn all signs of wealth that were distracting people from faith

• Martin Luther

• Believed it was "safer to be feared than loved"

• Isabella D'Este