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The most powerful and enthusiastic patron of Renaissance culture in Italy.
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The first book ever printed was the Bible.
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It is a 14.0 ft marble statue depicting the Biblical hero David, represented as a standing male nude.
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The painting was among the first portraits to depict the sitter before an imaginary landscape and Leonardo was one of the first painters to use aerial perspective.
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He was also a counselor to Henry VIII, and Lord High Chancellor of England.
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began the Protestant Reformation.
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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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Was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist.
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Discovered that the density of liquids (how much they contract and expand) reacts predictably to changes in temperature.
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Pope Clement VII refused to grant Henry an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
