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The most powerful and enthusiastic patron of Renaissance culture in Italy.
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Gutenberg produced what is considered to be the first book ever printed: a Latin language Bible, printed in Mainz, Germany.
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a half-length portrait painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci 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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David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created in marble between 1501 and 1504 by the Italian artist Michelangelo
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The book Utopia paved way for the Utopian literature. In the novel a traveler Raphael describes an imaginary country on an island, Utopia, to More and Pieter Gillis.
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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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King Henry VIII declared himself to be supreme head of the Church of England. This resulted in a schism with the Papacy. As a result of this schism, many non-Anglicans consider that the Church of England only existed from the 16th century Protestant Reformation.
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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 great English dramatist and poet
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Galileo Galilei discovered that the density of liquids (how much they contract and expand) reacts predictably to changes in temperature. ... Because his device did not have a numerical temperature scale, it is not technically considered a thermometer. This early thermometer is more precisely called a thermoscope.