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Banking family of Florence. Supported the arts by funding many artists/projects

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The Medici Family

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Was a Monk. He believed a balance in both reasoning and faith was necessary to reach truth. His beliefs helped bridge the gap between people of faith and people of reason. His most famous work was Summa Theologica. He helped bring a balance between reason and faith.

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Thomas Aquinas

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English writer who wrote Utopia in the 1500s, and it described an idealized society

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Sir Thomas More

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English playwright and poet that wrote poems and plays including histories, tragedies, and comedies. Many of his famous plays were about politics and society. Part of the Globe theatre in London. He also acted there. 

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William Shakespeare

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invented a printing press. His invention of a printing press mechanized the process of using movable type to “press” ink into paper, and it revolutionized the book world. 

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Johannes Gutenberg

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He was the first modern European scientist to propose that Earth and other planets revolve around the sun, or the Heliocentric Theory of the universe.

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Nicolaus Copernicus

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came up with three laws or theories about how the planets orbit around the sun

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Johannes Kepler

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Built his own telescopes. He had seen the evidence through his telescope to support the heliocentric theory. He wrote a book about it, but it caused him trouble with the Roman Catholic Church.

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Galileo Galilei

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developed the Scientific Method

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Francis Bacon

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developed the theory of gravity. Developed Three Laws of Motion. 

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Sir Isaac Newton