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Sofonisba Anguissola | A female Italian artist who ended up painting in the spanish court |
Leon Alberti | Italian Renaissance Architect who describe architecture as a "social art" |
Leo X | The Pope who excommunicated Martin Luther |
Charles V | Holy Roman Emperor who told Luther to give up his writings |
Diet | "Day of meeting" assembly of german princes |
Edward VI | Henry VIII only son. King of England for a short time. Died at the age of 9. |
Paul III | Led the Catholic Church reform movement. He wanted to revive the moral authority of the church and roll back Protestant tide. |
Teresa of Avilia | Created her own Catholic convent. The church asked her to reform and reoganized spanish convents and monestaries. |
Tycho Brahe | Danish astronomer who found evidence to support Copernicus |
Johannes Kepler | Used Brahe's data to calculate orbits of planets around the sun. Each planet doesn't move in a perfect circle |
Francis Bacon | Experimentation and observation. Wanted Science to make life better for humans |
Ambroise Pare | Developed effective ointment for preventing infection. |
Robert Boyle | all matter is composed of tiny particles. Refined alchemists wiew of chemicals as basic building blocks. |
Book of Common Prayer | Drawn up by Thomas Cranmer. Required reading for all of England Churches |
Ellizabethan Settlement | Compromise between Protestand and Catholic practices which ended the religous turmoil under Queen Elizabeth |
Inquisition | Church court which used secret testimony, torture, and exectution to root out heresy |