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- 2. an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath.
- 3. an ideal commonwealth whose inhabitants exist under seemingly perfect conditions
- 5. a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
- 6. the person or group of people paying for the image
- 8. the theses of Luther against the sale of indulgences in the Roman Catholic Church
- 11. an Italian diplomat, author, philosopher and historian who lived during the Renaissance.
- 12. a 16th-century monk and theologian, was one of the most significant figures in Christian history. His beliefs helped birth the Reformation.
- 13. a German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and writer on music.
- 14. the revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries.
- 15. a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center.
- 16. a part of the Reformed tradition within Protestantism that traces its origin to the Church of Scotland.
- 17. member of a fringe, or radical, movement of the Protestant Reformation and spiritual ancestor of modern Baptists, Mennonites, and Quakers
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- 1. a cosmological model in which the Sun is assumed to lie at or near a central point (e.g., of the solar system or of the universe) while the Earth and other bodies revolve around it.
- 4. a religious reform movement that swept through Europe in the 1500s.
- 7. a member of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic order of priests founded by St. Ignatius Loyola, St. Francis Xavier, and others in 1534, to do missionary work.
- 9. a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.
- 10. a period of drastic change in scientific thought that took place during the 16th and 17th centuries.