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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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