W Hist. Chapter 14: Renaissance, Reformation, & Scientific Rev

Why the Renaissance began in Italy?

• wanted to revive a more spiritual outlook in the Church so he picked devoted & educated people
• He murdered several of his wives and coined himself as the head of the Church of England
• Roman Ruins-Remembrance of the glory days & Trade-Contact with other societies & wealth for the area
• Belief that God had decided, at the beginning of time, who would be saved.

Recant

• The French philosopher who believed that one should question all assumptions before accepting them and whose first truth was "I think, therefore, I am"
• The scientist whose laws of motion and gravitation were published in the 1687 book The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
• Broke with the Catholic church to be able to divorce Queen Catherine of Aragon
• To officially give up one's views

Patron

• The scientist whose laws of motion and gravitation were published in the 1687 book The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
• focused on worldly subjects rather than on the religious issues that had occupied medieval thinkers
• A financial supporter of the arts
• Martin Luther's article that stated all the things wrong about the Roman Catholic Church

Heliocentric Theory

• The transformation in thinking that occurred during the 1500s & 1600s as a result of this new system of investigation
• 1. Salvation could be achieved through faith alone 2. Bible was the sole source of religious truth 3. Rejected the idea that priests and the Church hierarchy had special powers
• provided concrete evidence that Earth revolves around the Sun
• A theory that stated that the Sun was the center of the universe

Geocentric theory

• A theory from Ptolemy that stated that the earth was the center of the universe and the other planets & the sun moved around it.
• Realistic scenes and images with lifelike human figures
• Broke with the Catholic church to be able to divorce Queen Catherine of Aragon
• the author of Utopia and was later sentenced to death

Scientific method

• The method of inquiry that includes carefully conducted experiments and mathematical
• Single printed sheet, usually containing news or crime
• The Polish scientist who published his Sun-centered conclusions in a book entitled On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres
• Creative movement, begun in Italy in the 1300s, that centered on a revival of interest in the classical learning of Greece and Rome

Scientific Revolution

• The transformation in thinking that occurred during the 1500s & 1600s as a result of this new system of investigation
• wanted to revive a more spiritual outlook in the Church so he picked devoted & educated people
• Technique of painting that creates an illusion of depth on a flat canvas
• Numerous mountain passes & rivers

Inflation

• focused on worldly subjects rather than on the religious issues that had occupied medieval thinkers
• 1555 Allowed each prince to decide what religion would be followed
• wanted to revive a more spiritual outlook in the Church so he picked devoted & educated people
• A rise in prices for goods

Almanacs

• provided concrete evidence that Earth revolves around the Sun
• early Humanist who is famous for his romantic "Sonnets to Laura"
• The most common book that predicted the weather
• the military body that was determined to combat heresy & spread the Catholic faith

Broadsides

• the author of Utopia and was later sentenced to death
• Roman Ruins-Remembrance of the glory days & Trade-Contact with other societies & wealth for the area
• Single printed sheet, usually containing news or crime
• banned certain books that talked poorly about the church and lasted until 1960