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Humanism is a philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value of human beings both individually and collectively. In the renaissance era people focused more on the value of people than your value after death. humanism was a popular belief that is still here today.
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Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, inventor, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe with the printing press. He made it so the bible could be read by anyone.
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Leonardo da Vinci was born on 15 April 1452. He was born near the Tuscan town of Vinci. He was the son of a local lawyer. He was apprenticed to the sculptor and painter Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence and in 1478 became an independent master.
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Niccolò Machiavelli was an Italian diplomat, politician, historian, philosopher, writer, playwright and poet of the Renaissance period.He is called the father of modern political philosophy and political science.
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Albrecht Dürer was a painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties due to his high-quality woodcut prints.
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Martin Luther was a German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk, and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation. Luther was ordained to the priesthood in 1507. He came to reject several teachings and practices of the Roman Catholic Church; in particular, he disputed the view on indulgences.
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Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.The four Raphael Rooms form a suite of reception rooms in the palace, the public part of the papal apartments in the Palace of the Vatican.
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Henry VIII was King of England from 1509 until his death in 1547. He was the second Tudor monarch, succeeding his father Henry VII. Henry is best known for his six marriages, in particular his efforts to have his first marriage annulled.
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The Sistine Chapel ceiling was painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512. After 4 years of hard work it was completed. it is now one of the most famous paintings in the world.
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Sir Thomas More, venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and Renaissance humanist. he wrote the book called Utopia
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Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance-era mathematician and astronomer, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at the center of the universe
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Heliocentrism is the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the Solar System. Historically, heliocentrism was opposed to geocentrism, which placed the Earth at the center.
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Pope Paul III, born Alessandro Farnese, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 13 October 1534 to his death in 1549. He came to the papal throne in an era after the sack of Rome in 1527 and rife with uncertainties in the Catholic Church after the Protestant Reformation.
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The Council of Trent, held between 1545 and 1563 in Trent, was the 19th ecumenical council of the Catholic Church. Prompted by the Protestant Reformation, it was considered the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation
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Elizabeth I was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death on 24 March 1603. Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor.
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Francis Bacon was the first to formalize the concept of a true scientific method, but he didn't do so in a vacuum. The work of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) and Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) influenced Bacon tremendously.
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Galileo Galilei was an astronomer, physicist and engineer. he made so many scientific discoveries and is known today as the "father of modern science".
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Francis Bacon was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. His works are credited with developing the scientific method and remained influential through the scientific revolution.
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Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor in the 1500s. He was born in 1564 and wrote some of the greatest plays in history. his most well known piece is Romeo and Juliet.
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Sir Isaac Newton PRS was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time, and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
