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Opens the door to learning and discovery
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the most powerful the enthusiastic patron of Italian culture
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Widely praised for its high aesthetic and artistic qualities, the book has an iconic status
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His book, Utopia, is about the political system of an imaginary, ideal island nation.
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In his theses, Luther condemned the excesses and corruption of the Roman Catholic Church
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The painting is thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo.
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Under King Henry VIII, the Church of England broke with Rome, because Pope Clement VII refused to grant Henry an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
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Nicolaus Copernicus argued that the Earth moved across the heavens as one of the planets.
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William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist.
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Because his device did not have a numerical temperature scale, it is not technically considered a thermometer. This early thermometer is more precisely called a thermoscope.
