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Protestant Reformation & Scientific Revolution
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05/19/2016

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protestant reformation
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The Protestant Reformation was the 16th-century religious, political, intellectual and cultural upheaval that splintered Catholic Europe, setting in place the structures and beliefs that would define the continent in the modern era.
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95 theses
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are a list of propositions for an academic disputation written by Martin Luther in 1517
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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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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Martin Luther
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a German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation. Luther came to reject several teachings and practices of the Late Medieval Catholic Church
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Scientific Revolution
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the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology and chemistry transformed views of society and nature.
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heliocentrism
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s the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the Solar System. The word comes from the Greek
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indulgences
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the selling of forgiveness
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Galileo Galilei
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was an Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician who played a major role in the scientific revolution during the Renaissance
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Johannes Gutenberg
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was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe. His introduction of mechanical movable type printing to Europe started the Printing Revolution and is widely regarded as the most important invention of the second millennium, the s
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