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What goes up must come down
Gravity
Painstaking method used to confirm findings and to prove or disprove a hypothesis
Scientific Method
To cancel
Annul
Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor who created the Mona Lisa
Leonardo Da Vinci
Period in the 1500s and 1600s in which scientific thinkers challenged traditional ideas and relied on observation and experimentation
Scientific Revolution
Financial supporter of the arts
Patron
Having to do with worldly (HUMAN), rather than religious matters
Secular
To give up one's views or beliefs
Recant
Period when Europeans broke away from the Roman Catholic Church and formed new Christian churches
Protestant Reformation
English playwright and poet of numerous comedies, tragedies and histories.
William Shakespeare.
Religious belief that is contrary to the official teachings of the church
Heresy
Believed that salvation is gained through faith alone and the Bible is the source of religious truth (type of religion)
Calvinism
In the Roman Catholic church, a pardon for sins committed during a person's life.
Indulgence.
This was based on the belief that the sun is the center of the universe
Heliocentric
Period of great creativity and change in Europe from 1300s through the 1600s; the word means "rebirth"
Renaissance
Protestant reformer who preached predestination
John Calvin
English scientist who discovered gravity; worked with physics and astronomy
Sir Issac Newton
The idea that God, long ago, determined who will gain salvation.
Predestination
Italian Renaissance sculptor, engineer, architect, poet and painter of the Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo
Italian Renaissance astronomer who supported the heliocentric theory
Galileo
Polish astronomer who proposed sun-centered model of the universe
Copernicus
German monk who began the Protestant Reformation with the 95 Theses.
Martin Luther
Intellectual movement at the heart of the Italian Renaissance that focused on worldly subjects rather than religious ones
Humanism
List of arguments against indulgences, posted by Martin Luther on the door of the church in Germany
95 Theses
Survival of the fittest or an important part of evolution where organisms with traits that enhance survival and reproduction in a specific environment tend to leave more offspring, causing those traits to become more common in generations.
Natural Selection