Illumination
What is the unit of measure for perceived power of light?
Lumen
What major early Christian heresy claimed that Jesus was not fully divine, but a created being subordinate to God the Father?
Arianism
This British unit of weight equals 14 pounds and is still commonly used for measuring people’s weight.
Stone
This French peasant girl, later a national heroine, was born in 1412 and led troops during the Hundred Years’ War.
Joan of Arc
This type of medieval book, often illuminated, was used for daily prayers and religious devotions.
Book of Hours
This heresy, popular in the 2nd century, claimed that the material world was evil and created by a lesser god called the Demiurge.
Gnosticism
This metric unit is used to measure length and is equal to one thousandth of a meter.
Millimeter
In 1412, the city of Florence was a major center of this cultural movement beginning to emerge in Italy.
The Renaissance
In optics, this term refers to the bending of light as it passes from one medium to another.
Refraction
This 5th-century heresy taught that humans could choose good without divine grace and were not affected by original sin.
Pelagianism
This ancient unit of length was based on the distance from a person’s elbow to the tip of their middle finger.
Cubit
In 1412, this city became the capital of the newly founded Margraviate of Brandenburg.
Berlin
Which German writer is said to have uttered the following as his last words: “Mehr Licht!” (“More light!”)?
Goethe
This 5th-century heresy taught that Christ had only one nature—a divine one—rather than being both fully human and fully divine.
Monophysitism
This French scientist is often credited with early ideas that led to the metric system, though it was developed by a committee during the French Revolution.
Pierre-Simon Laplace
In 1412, this English prince’s army captured the French city of Caen during the Hundred Years’ War.
Henry V
What molecule is responsible for the glow in fireflies, allowing them to produce light through a chemical reaction?
Luciferin
This philosopher and former friar was burned at the stake in 1600 for, among other things, proposing an infinite universe and rejecting key doctrines like the Trinity.
Giardano Bruno
This system of measurement, based on the human body, was widely used before the adoption of standardized units.
anthropometric system
In 1412, the Council of Constance was convened to resolve this major crisis in the Catholic Church.
Western Schism