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The most powerful and enthusiastic patron of Renaissance culture in Italy.
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Gutenberg produced what is considered to be the first book ever printed: a Latin language Bible, printed in Mainz, Germany.
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a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created in marble between 1501 and 1504 by the Italian artist Michelangelo
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a half-length portrait painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci that has been described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world".
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A work of fiction and socio-political satire
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the priest and scholar Martin Luther approaches the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, and nails a piece of paper to it containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation.
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Under King Henry VIII in the 16th century, the Church of England broke with Rome, largely because Pope Clement VII refused to grant Henry an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
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published just before his death, placed the sun at the center of the universe and argued that the Earth moved across the heavens as one of the planets.
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Born in Stratford-on-Avon on April 23, 1564.
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a Galilean thermometer typically looks like a tall, sealed glass cylinder containing clear liquid in which several small glass bulbs are floating.