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It opens the door to learning
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He is the most powerful and enthusiastic patron if Renaissance culture in Italy
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holds the distinction of being the inventor of the movable-type printing press
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placed the sun at the center of the universe and argued that the Earth moved across the heavens as one of the planets
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He accepted the challenge with enthusiasm to sculpt a large scale David and worked constantly for over two years to create one of his most breathtaking masterpieces of gleaming white marble.
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The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci that has been described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world".
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work of fiction and socio-political satire
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the priest and scholar Martin Luther approaches the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany
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English poet
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invent a thermometer, called Galileo's air thermometer (more accurately termed a thermoscope)
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the Church of England broke with Rome, largely because Pope Clement VII refused to grant Henry an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon
