Italy Flashcards
Anglican
a member of any of the Anglican Churches.
of, relating to, or denoting the Church of England or any Church in communion with it.
95 Theses
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.
Counter Reformation
the reform of the Church of Rome in the 16th and 17th centuries that was stimulated by the Protestant Reformation.
Zwingli AN
was a leader of the Reformation in Switzerland.
Ignatius of loyola
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.
Council of Trent
was one of the Roman Catholic Church’s most important ecumenical councils.
Jesuits
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.
City-State
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.
Scientific Revolution
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
Heliocentic Theory
Heliocentrism, or heliocentricism, is the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the Solar System.
Roger Bacon
was an English philosopher and Franciscan friar who placed considerable emphasis on the study of nature through empirical methods.
Copernicus
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.
Kepler
crater on the Moon in Oceanus Procellarum, 32 km20 mi in diameter
Galileo
was an Italian polymath: astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician, he played a major role in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century.
Scientific Method
The scientific method is a body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge.