***TECH TREE***: Wonders of the Renaissance

[yin26]

We have done an outstanding job getting dates and information on a wealth of topics! But my goal is for this to be actually used by Firaxis, and to do that, we need to really nail down dates and sources as best we can.

Please provide a quote from your source, like this:

quote: Rhodes, Colossus of: "Colossal statue of the sun god Helios that stood in the ancient Greek city of Rhodes and was one of the Seven Wonders of the World. ...."--Yin (http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/ar...5066+1,00.html )

Wonders of the Renaissance

• Copernicus' Observatory:
  
  ?? between 1512 and 1530--Atahualpa
  
  "Only 27 recorded observations are known for Copernicus's entire life 1473-1543 (he undoubtedly made more than that), most of them concerning eclipses, alignments, and conjunctions of planets and stars. The first such known observation occurred on March 9, 1497, at Bologna. In De revolutionibus, book 4, chapter 27, Copernicus reported that he had seen the Moon eclipse "the brightest star in the eye of the Bull," Alpha Tauri (Aldebaran)."--Yin( http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/ar...8021+2,00.html )
  
• King Richard's Crusade:
  
  1191/1192--Atahualpa
  
  "Richard the Lionheart succeeded his father, Henry II, after winning a war against his father and forcing the dying man to surrender the throne to him at his death. After he was crowned in 1189, Richard joined the Third Crusade (1189-1192) with his friend Philip II of France."--Yin( http://library.thinkquest.org/11775/.../RichardI.html )
  
• Magellan's Expedition:
  
  August 10th, 1519--Atahualpa
  
  "Magellan, who in 1517 married Beatriz Barbosa, daughter of an important official in Seville, said farewell to his wife and infant son Rodrigo before his ships left Sanlúcar de Barrameda on Sept. 20, 1519, carrying about 270 men of various ethnic, racial, and national origins."--Yin( http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/ar...1193+2,00.html )
  
• Marco Polo's Embassy:
  
  ?? lived from 1254 to 1324. 1292 he returned to europe from his journey--Atahualpa
  
  "When political events prevented their return to Venice, they traveled eastward to Bukhara (Bokhara), eventually ending their journey four years later (1265) at the Mongol court, probably at the summer residence of the grand khan--called Shang-tu (the Xanadu of the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge). Establishing friendly relations with the great Kublai Khan himself, they were eventually sent back to Europe as Kublai's ambassadors to the pope, carrying letters asking the pope to send Kublai one hundred intelligent men "acquainted with the Seven Arts"; they also bore gifts and were asked to bring back some oil from the lamp burning at the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem."--Yin( http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/ar...2204+1,00.html )
  
• Michelangelo's Chapel:
  
  Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel from 1508-1512--Hugo Rune
  
  "Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel from 1508 to 1512, commissioned by Pope Julius II. On becoming pope in 1503, Julius II reasserted papal authority over the Roman barons and successfully backed the restauration of the Medici in Florence. He was a liberal patron of the arts, commissioning Bramante to build St Peter's Church, Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel, and Raphael to decorate the Vatican apartments."--Yin( http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/michelangelo/ )
  
• Shakespeare's Theatre:
  
  The Globe was built in 1599. An earlier "Shakespearean" theatre (The Theatre from 1576) existed, but it's not as famous as The Globe--Hugo Rune
  
  Globe Theatre: "Famous London theatre in which the plays of William Shakespeare were performed after 1599. It was built by two brothers, Cuthbert and Richard Burbage, who inherited its predecessor, The Theatre, from their father, James. The latter theatre had closed, ostensibly for good, in 1597, and the owner of the land on which it stood threatened to pull the building down once the lease expired. The Burbages and their associates anticipated the threat, however, and in late 1598 dismantled The Theatre and carried the materials to Bankside (a district of Southwark stretching for about half a mile west of London Bridge on the south bank of the River Thames), where the Swan and the Rose theatres already stood. To the east of these, they reassembled the timbers from the old theatre, calling the new building, which was probably completed by the autumn of 1599, the Globe Theatre."--Yin( http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/ar...388041,00.html )
  
• Leonardo's Workshop: Leonardo's "Workshop," if you count it as the period he worked on his own, lasted from 1482-1519--Hugo Rune
  
  "He also worked in the next-door workshop of Antonio Pollaiuolo, where he was probably first drawn to the study of anatomy. In 1472 Leonardo was accepted in the painters' guild of Florence but remained five years more in his teacher's workshop. Then he worked independently in Florence until 1481."--Yin( http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/ar...4893+2,00.html )

[This message has been edited by yin26 (edited March 14, 2000).]

[yin26]

Essentially done! Anybody want to find more detail?