Renaissance

period following the Middle Ages, means "rebirth"

• Reformation

• Re-ignition

• Renaissance

As _ became a center for arts and learning, the Renaissance began.

wealthy banker who turned Florence into a center of arts, culture, and education

• Cosimo de' Medici

• Marco Polo

• Kublai Khan

• Genghis Khan

He was burned alive for saying that other stars might have planets orbiting them with possible life forms.

• Claudius Ptolemy

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Giordano Bruno

• Tycho Brahe

Whose model of our solar system is this? Look carefully!

• Aristarchus

• Ptolemy

• Tycho Brahe

• Nicolas Copernicus

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Who would NOT have agreed with this model?

• Ptolemy

• Aristotle

• Copernicus

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Which scientific figure from the Renaissance period proposed the heliocentric model of the universe?

• Galileo Galilei

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Johannes Kepler

• Isaac Newton

What invention during the Renaissance significantly advanced the spread of scientific knowledge?

• The steam engine

• The printing press

• The telescope

• The microscope

Which Renaissance scientist is known for his detailed anatomical drawings?

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Andreas Vesalius

• William Harvey

• Paracelsus

The Renaissance period saw the revival of which ancient scientific philosophy?

• Aristotelianism

• Stoicism

• Epicureanism

• Platonism