Across
- 2. a person chosen, named, or honored as a special guardian, protector, or supporter
- 6. an astronomer who proposed a heliocentric system,
- 7. propositions for debate concerned with the question of indulgences,
- 10. re-baptizer
- 12. an ideal commonwealth whose inhabitants exist under seemingly perfect conditions.
- 14. drastic change in scientific thought that took place during the 16th and 17th centuries
- 15. the process of objectively establishing facts through testing and experimentation.
- 16. a German mathematician and astronomer who discovered that the Earth and planets travel about the sun in elliptical orbits.
- 17. one in which the planets revolve around a fixed sun.
Down
- 1. a natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician
- 3. a period in European civilization that was marked by a revival of Classical learning and wisdom.
- 4. Italian Renaissance political philosopher and statesman and secretary of the Florentine republic
- 5. a religious reform movement that swept through Europe in the 1500s.
- 8. Baptist minister and social rights activist in the United States in the 1950s and '60s.
- 9. belonging or relating to a Protestant church, found especially in Scotland or the United States, which is governed by a body of official people all of equal rank.
- 11. related to, or coming from, England
- 13. government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided.