Renaissance in Italy 2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 sect | religious groups that had broken away from an established Church |
| henry VIII | responsible for the break of the Catholic Church. creates Church of England (Anglican Church). wanted annullment from marriage |
| mary tudor | henry and his spanish wife Catherine of Aragon had only one surviving child. |
| thomas cranmer | archbishop of the new church, anulled the king's marriage |
| elizabeth | in 1533 Henry marries anne boyelyn, the Queen, and hoped to bear him a son. has daughter. |
| canonize | to recogize as a saint by the Catholic Church |
| compromise | acceptable middle ground |
| council of trent | a group of Catholic leaders that met btwn. 1545 and 1563 to respond to Protestant challenges and direct the future of the Catholic Church |
| ignatius of loyola | founded the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits, was a Spanish knight raised in the crusading tradition |
| teresa of avila | symbolized renewal of intense faith, established her own order of nuns, reorganized and refound spanish monasteries. Her spiritual writings ranked among the most important Christian texts of her time |
| ghetto | separate quarter of the city |
| nicolaus copernicus | proposed sun centered model of universe (heliocentric) |
| heliocentric | sun-centered |
| tycho brahe | set up an observatory qnd founded the planets moved, but not in perfect cirles |
| johannes kepler | Brahe's assistent, who was the brilliant German astronomer and mathematician, after Brahe's death he used his data to calculate the orbits of the planets revolving around the sun |
| galileo | used a telescope to observe mountains on the moon, as well as four moving slowly around Jupitor. He was condemned by scholars and the Church |
| francis bacon | an Englishman who stressed experimentation and observation, wanted science to make life better for people by leading to practical technologies |
| rene descartes | a giant Frenchman who emphasized human reasoning as the best road to understanding, he wrote the Discourse of Method, explaining how he decided to discard all traditional authorites and search for provable knowledge |
| scientific method | a step-by-step process of discovery that evolved, required scientists to collent and accurately measure data |
| hypothesis | possible explanations |
| robert boyle | an English chemist who in the 1600s refined the alchemist view of chemicals as basic building blocks |
| isaac newton | a student in England who used mathematics to show that a single force keeps the planets in their orbits around the sun, called this force gravity |
| gravity | a single force that keeps the planets in their orbits around the sun |
| calculus | a branch of mathematics in which calculations are made using special symbolic notations; developed by Isaac Newton |
| social art | study of architecture, blends beauty with utility and improvement of society |
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