Renaissance: Important People

There are a lot of important people who lived in the renaissance, for the example there was William Shakespear who is one of the greatest poets and playwrights in the earth, he changed the way plays were written by creating new styles of writing. Another big artist from this time was Voltaire, one of France's greatest writer and philosopher, that with his humorous verses he became favorite in society circles but then for insulting Chevalier De Rohan he was given the option of imprisonment or exile and he chose exile and he went to live in England where he studied the philosophy of John Locke.

In the renaissance there weren't only artists, there were also a lot of important scientists who lived during it like Sir Isaac Newton who is the most influential scientist who ever lived, his accomplishments in mathematics, optics, and physics founded most of modern science and revolutionized the world, another great scientist was Leonardo da Vinci, he was one of the greatest masters of the high renaissance, he is considered one of the painters of all time.