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inventer of the movable type printing pres
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Florentine statesman, ruler, and patron of arts and letters
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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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written by Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) and published just before his death,
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This astonishing Renaissance sculpture was created between 1501 and 1504.
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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 noted Renaissance humanist
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Martin Luther posts his 95 theses. On this day in 1517,
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nder 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
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Galileo did invent a thermometer, called Galileo's air thermometer
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Shakespeare also died on 23 April; in 1616, when he was 52 years of age.