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This French term means "rebirth."
What is Renaissance?
A person who opposes or refuses to conform to established religious doctrine.
What is a heretic?
This technology radically transformed European society and communication, with the invention of moveable type.
What is the printing press?
This pandemic resulted in the estimated deaths of ~25 to 50 million people across Europe, between 1346 and 1353.
What is the bubonic plague?
This term means " to fracture or to break."
What is schism?
This term can be defined as "the art of skillful speaking."
This field of study includes such subjects as grammar, poetry, moral philosophy, and history.
What are the humanities?
A system of thought based on the belief that reason is the chief source of knowledge.
What is rationalism?
This Latin phrase translates as "greatest work."
What is magnum opus?
This term means "oval or egg-shaped."
What is ellipse?
The publication of this text marks the origins of the Protestant Reformation.
What is the Ninety-Five Theses?
The everyday language of ordinary people.
What is the vernacular?
This Greco-Roman mathematician developed an astronomical model that situated Earth at the center of the universe.
Who is Claudius Ptolemy?
This term means "sun-centered."
The right to govern via the consent of the governed.
What is popular sovereignty?
This astronomer-mathematician developed a model that situated the sun at the center of the universe.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
This Italian humanist and republican is recognized as having founded the fields of modern political theory and modern political science.
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
This English scientific theorist developed the scientific method of inductive reasoning.
Who is Francis Bacon?
This political treatise serves as a handbook for rulers on how to attain and maintain power.
What is The Prince?
This English scholar published Mathematical Principles on Natural Philosophy, in 1687.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
This French scientific theorist developed the scientific method of deductive reasoning.
Who is Rene Descartes?
This theory of motion explains how every object in the universe is attracted to every other object in the universe by gravity.
What is the Law of Universal Gravitation?
This master of the High Renaissance created masterpieces such as David, Pieta, and the frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
Branch of mathematics that allows for the demonstration of gravity as a singular force that controls planetary orbital rotations.
What is calculus?
What is Machiavelli's fortuna?