... a cultural movement involving a renewal of learning, development in infrastructure, and a gradual reform in education. The Renaissance may be considered as a bridge between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age. This significant period of time was when people began to think outside of the church, the traditional ... believing that the Earth was in the middle of the universe. The Scientific Revolution possibly would not be called the Scientific Revolution without the contributions of Galileo. Galileo was an Italian astronomer who continued the work of Copernicus. He built his own telescope...

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... their crafts were none like the other, they paralleled one another in many ways while correcting their society's traditional thinking. The ingenious cultural impacts of Michelangelo during the Renaissance are still principal to Italian as well as Western culture today. Additionally, Martin Luther's inspirational journey to disrupt the corruption of the church instilled an entirely new branch in Christianity. Alas, Galileo's studies ... their affiliates in their influential discoveries, the Scientific Revolution still reins the most influential movement on European soil. Not to cast a sh...

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... world of science and humanism when it was forced to encounter scholasticism and absolutism that held power in the Catholic Church. The devastating result brought about the end of the Italian Renaissance as well as Galileo's liberty. Galileo was an individual who, as young as nineteen, displayed his overwhelming knowledge in science. After assuming his second lectureship at the University of Padua ... ...

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