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Renaissance scientists were the first to adopt Francis Bacon's system of the scientific method, which relied on observation and hypothesis to establish its claims. -
intellectual movement typified by a revived interest in the classical world and studies which focussed not on religion but on what it is to be human -
Johann Gutenberg's invention of movable-type printing quickened the spread of knowledge, discoveries, and literacy in Renaissance Europe. -
German inventor and craftsman -
was the head of the catholic church and ruler of the papal states till his death in November 1549 -
During the Late Middle Ages and the early Renaissance, the scope of the Inquisition grew significantly in response to the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation -
was an English lawyer, judge, author, and renaissance humanist. -
leader of the English reformation and archbishop of canterbury -
a monetary payment of penalty which, supposedly, absolved one of past sins and/or released one from purgatory after death. -
The first advocate of a heliocentric model was Aristarchus of Samos in ancient Greece. Centuries later, Nicolaus Copernicus developed a geometric model of the heliocentric theory during the Renaissance. -
Italian painter and architect of the high renaissance -
was the last monarch of the tutor dynasty who ruled England between 1558 and 1603 -
was a Dutch christian humanist, catholic priest and philosopher -
The Council of Trent was the formal Roman Catholic reply to the doctrinal challenges of the Protestant Reformation -
Italian sculptor, painter and poet of the high renaissance -
a British theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva -
an English poet and actor is widely regarded as the best writer in the English language