Italy Flashcards

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Anglican

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a member of any of the Anglican Churches.

of, relating to, or denoting the Church of England or any Church in communion with it.

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95 Theses

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The Ninety-five Theses or Disputation on the Power of Indulgences are a list of propositions for an academic disputation written by Martin Luther in 1517.

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Counter Reformation

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the reform of the Church of Rome in the 16th and 17th centuries that was stimulated by the Protestant Reformation.

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Zwingli AN

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was a leader of the Reformation in Switzerland.

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Ignatius of loyola

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Saint Ignatius of Loyola, SJ was a Spanish knight from a local Basque noble family, hermit, priest since 1537, and theologian, who founded the Society of Jesus and, on 19 April 1541, became its first Superior General.

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Council of Trent

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was one of the Roman Catholic Church’s most important ecumenical councils.

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Jesuits

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a member of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic order of priests founded by St. Ignatius Loyola, St. Francis Xavier, and others in 1534, to do missionary work.

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City-State

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Italian city-states during the Renaissance—but today only a handful of sovereign city-states exist, with some disagreement as to which are city-states.

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Scientific Revolution

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was the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology and chemistry transformed the views of society about nature

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Heliocentic Theory

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Heliocentrism, or heliocentricism, is the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the Solar System.

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Roger Bacon

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was an English philosopher and Franciscan friar who placed considerable emphasis on the study of nature through empirical methods.

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Copernicus

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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, possibly independently of Aristarchus of Samos, who had formulated such a model before Copernicus.

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Kepler

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crater on the Moon in Oceanus Procellarum, 32 km20 mi in diameter

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Galileo

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was an Italian polymath: astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician, he played a major role in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century.

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Scientific Method

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The scientific method is a body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge.

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Newton

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The newton (symbol: N) is the International System of Units (SI) derived unit of force. It is named after Isaac Newton in recognition of his work on classical mechanics, specifically Newton’s second law of motion.

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Vesalius

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was an anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De humani corporis fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body).

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Descartes

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was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist.

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Robert Boyle

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was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist and inventor born in Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland.