Vocab 7 Flashcards
Period of great creativity and change in Europe from the 1300’s through the 1600’s; the word means rebirth
Renaissance
Painstaking method used to confirm findings and to prove or disprove a hypothesis
Scientific Method
Intellectual movement at the heart of the Italian Renaissance that focused on worldly subjects rather than religious issues
Humanism
Based on the belief that the sun is the center of the universe
Heliocentric
Person who provides financial support for the arts
Patron
Period in the 1500’s and 1600’s in which scientific thinkers challenged traditional ideas and relied on observation and experimentation
Scientific Revolution
Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor who created the Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci
Polish astronomer who proposed the sun-centered model of the solar system
Copernicus
Artistic technique used to give drawings and paintings a three-dimensional effect
Perspective
Force that tends to pull one mass or object to another
Gravity
English poet and playwright of numerous comedies, tragedies, and histories
William Shakespeare
Italian Renaissance astronomer who supported the heliocentric theory
Galileo
English scientist who discovered gravity; worked with physics and astronomy
Sir Isaac Newton
Italian Renaissance sculptor, engineer, architect, poet, and painter of the Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo
Period when Europeans broke away from the Roman Catholic Church and formed new Christian churches
Protestant Reformation
Having to do with worldly, rather than religious matters
Secular
List of 95 arguments against indulgences, posted by Martin Luther on the door of a Church in Wittenberg, Germany, in 1517
Ninety-Five Theses
German monk who began the Protestant Reformation with the 95 Theses
Martin Luther
Religious belief contrary to the official teachings of a Church
Heresy
Idea that God long ago determined who will gain salvation
Predestination
Calvinists believe that salvation is gained through faith alone and the Bible is the source of religious truth. John Calvin believed in predestination
Calvinism
In the Roman Catholic Church, pardon for sins committed during a person’s lifetime
Indulgence
Give up one’s views or beliefs
Recant
Protestant reformer who preached predestination
John Calvin
Cancel or invalidate
Annul
