Renaissance and Reformation Vocab

Period of great creativity and change in Europe from the 1300’s through the 1600’s; the word means rebirth

• Renaissance

• Scientific Revolution

• Protestant Reformation

• Medieval

Painstaking method used to confirm findings and to prove or disprove a hypothesis

• Heliocentric

• Scientific method

• Scientific Revolution

Intellectual movement at the heart of the Italian Renaissance that focused on worldly subjects rather than religious issues

• Scientific Revolution

• Humanism

• Heliocentric

• Patron

Based on the belief that the sun is the center of the universe

• Renaissance

• Gravity

• Heliocentric

• Humanism

Person who provides financial support for the arts

• Patron

• Heliocentric

• Perspective

• Humanism

Period in the 1500’s and 1600’s in which scientific thinkers challenged traditional ideas and relied on observation and experimentation

• Renaissance

• Heliocentric

• Scientific Method

• Scientific Revolution

Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor who created the Mona Lisa

• Copernicus

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Shakespeare

• Galileo

Polish astronomer who proposed the sun-centered model of the solar system

• Copernicus

• Michelangelo

• Sir Isaac Newton

• Shakespeare

Artistic technique used to give drawings and paintings a three-dimensional effect

• Perspective

• Patron

• Heliocentric

Force that tends to pull one mass or object to another

• Scientific Method

• Gravity

• Perspective