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It opens the door to learning
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The most powerful and enthusiastic patron of Renaissance culture in Italy
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It marked the start of the "Gutenberg Revolution" and the age of the printed book in the West.
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It was published just before his death, 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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The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favoured subject in the art of Florence.
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The main reasons why the painting is such a masterpiece boils down to the techniques that were used in order to paint it. Leonardo da Vinci made heavy use of an almost forgotten painting technique which is called sfumato (it's Italian for smoke, by the way).
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Utopia is a work of satire, indirectly criticizing Europe's political corruption and religious hypocrisy. More was a Catholic Humanist. Alongside his close friend, the philosopher and writer Erasmus, More saw Humanism as a way to combine faith and reason.
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In his theses, Luther condemned the excesses and corruption of the Roman Catholic Church, especially the papal practice of asking payment—called “indulgences”—for the forgiveness of sins.
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Under King Henry VIII in the 16th century, 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. ... Upon Henry's death, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer began changes that allied the Church of England with the Reformation.
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He was a came from family of some status: has good education, but not advanced. He was an English poet
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A Galileo thermometer (or Galilean thermometer) is a thermometer made of a sealed glass cylinder containing a clear liquid and several glass vessels of varying density. As the temperature changes, the individual floats rise or fall in proportion to their respective density and the density of the surrounding liquid.
