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anglican
related in origin to and in communion with the Church of England, as various Episcopal churches in other parts of the world
Theses
a proposition stated or put forward for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or to be maintained against objections:
Counter Reformation
the movement within the Roman Catholic Church that followed the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century.
Zwingli AN
Ulrich [oo l-rikh] (Show IPA), or Huldreich [hoo l-drahykh] (Show IPA), 1484–1531, Swiss Protestant reformer.
Ignatius of Loyola
Saint Ignatius of (Iñigo López de Loyola) 1491–1556, Spanish soldier and ecclesiastic: founder of the Society of Jesus.
Council of Trent
Council of, the ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church that met at Trent intermittently from 1545 to 1563, and defined church doctrine and condemned the Reformation.
jesuits
a member of a Roman Catholic religious order (Society of Jesus) founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1534
city-state
a sovereign state consisting of an autonomous city with its dependencies.
scientific revolution
the period of great advances in the sciences, roughly 1500-1700
heliocentric theory
measured or considered as being seen from the center of the sun.
roger bacon
Francis (Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans) 1561–1626, English essayist, philosopher, and statesman.
copernicus
Nicolaus [nik-uh-ley-uh s] (Show IPA), (Mikolaj Kopernik) 1473–1543, Polish astronomer who promulgated the now accepted theory that the earth and the other planets move around the sun (the Copernican System)
kepler
Johann [yoh-hahn] (Show IPA), 1571–1630, German astronomer.
galileo
(Galileo Galilei) 1564–1642, Italian physicist and astronomer
scientific method
a method of research in which a problem is identified, relevant data are gathered, a hypothesis is formulated from these data, and the hypothesis is empirically tested.
