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| a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches |
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| martin lurther presented these at wintenbrig. |
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| was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe. |
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| A sixteenth-century German religious leader; the founder of Protestantism. Luther, a priest of the Roman Catholic Church, began the Reformation by posting his Ninety-five Theses, which attacked the church for allowing the sale of indulgences. |
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| was the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology (including human anatomy) and chemistry transformed views of society and nature. |
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| having or representing the sun as the center, as in the accepted astronomical model of the solar system. |
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| the action or fact of indulging. |
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| Galileo Galilei Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars; demonstrated that different weights descend at the same rate; perfected the refracting telescope that enabled him to make many discoveries (1564-1642) |
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| A German printer of the fifteenth century, who invented the printing press. Gutenberg also invented the technique of printing with “movable type” — that is, with one piece of type for each letter, so that the type could be reused after a page was printed. |
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