Robespierre led France during the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution. Leonardo Da Vinci was an example of a "Renaissance Man," good at a lot of skills, such as sculpting, architecture, engineering, science, and philosophy. Copernicus developed the heliocentric theory, the idea that the earth revolves around the sun. Michelangelo was the Florentine painter who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and sculpted the David