Chapter 4 - Vocab Flashcards
What is the scientific method?
When you make observations, experiment, and draw conclusions, based on evidence.
What did Copernicus discover?
That the Earth actually moves around the Sun!
Tell me what Kepler concluded.
Planets move in an eliptical orbit.
Who built telescopes and studied objects in the sky?
Galileo!
Anatomy is…
bodily structure
What’s astrology?
star science, study of objects in the sky
Tell me what makes Vesalius famous
disected human bodies in fornt of his students
Brunelleshci was not only an architect, he was also…
one of the first engineers
Define excommunication
official exclusion from the Church
Martin Luther did what?
translated the Bible into German, and spoke out against indulgences
What were indulgences?
certificates that reduced the amount of time people would be punished after they died
Marguerite de Navarre was who?
The sister of the king of France, a French humanist, religious reformer
What did Marguerite de Navarre do?
protected Protestants from arrest
People who agreed with Luther were called…
What church did they form?
Protestants, and the Lutheran Church
What movement was in response to the Protestant Reformation?
The Catholic Counter Reformation.
