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Question | Answer |
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patron | finaial supporter |
humanism | intellectual movement |
humanities | subjects taught in ancient Greek and Roman schools |
perspective | artictic technique used to give drawings/paintings a 3D effect |
engraving | metal plate with acid used for paintings |
utopiah | ideal society |
idulgence | a lessining of the time a soul would havce spent in purgatory |
recant | give up his views |
predestination | idea that God had a long ago determined who would gain salvation |
theorcracy | government run by the church leaders |
annul | cancel |
canonized | recognized as a saint |
compromise | acceptable middle ground |
scapegoats | they were blamed for others problems |
ghetto | seperite quarter of city |
heilocenteric | sun centered |
hypocentric | possible explanation |
scientific method | step by step process of discovery |
gravity | force that keeps the planets in their orbit around the sun |
Lorenzo De' Medici | organized a banking business |
Francesco Petrarch | early resinance hummist, he also assembled a library of Greek and Roman manuscripts |
Leonardo Da Vinci | made scetches of nature and of models in his studio, he also disected corpes to learn how bones and muscles work |
Michelangleo | a sculpture, engineer, painter, architech, and poet. Also created the statue of David |
Raphael | tender portrayles of the madonna, the mother of Jesus |
Baldasre Castiglione | he wrote the book of the Courtier, he was also well educated and mastered many feilds, from poetry, to music, to sports |
Niccolo Machivelli | he served Florence as a diplament and observed kings and princes in foregin courts |
Nicolaus Copernicus | he published the book "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres" |
Johannes Kepler | used Brahe's data to caluculate the orbits of the planets revolving around the sun |
Galileo Galilie | assembled an astronomic telescope |
Francis Bacon | he rejected Aristotle's scientific asuptions, he stressed experimentation and observation |
Rene Descurtes | he imphasised human reasoning as the best road to understanding |
Issac Newton | he published the book "The Mathmatical Principles of Natural Philosiphy" |
Robert Boyle | he distinguished between indivdual elements and chemical compounds. He explained the effect of temperature and pressure on gases |