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Opens the door to learning and discovery
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the most powerful and enthusiastic patron of Renaissance culture in Italy.
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the first major book printed using mass-produced movable metal type in Europe. It marked the start of the "Gutenberg Revolution" and the age of the printed book in the West.
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a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created in marble
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Thomas More is known for his 1516 book Utopia and for his untimely death in 1535, after refusing to acknowledge King Henry VIII as head of the Church of England. He was canonized by the Catholic Church as a saint in 1935
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the priest and scholar Martin Luther approaches the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, and nails a piece of paper to it containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation.
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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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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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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 world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"
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for the first time, allowed temperature variations to be measured
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"the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world"
