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| - The religious movement in the 16th century that had for its object the reform of the Roman Catholic Church, and that led to the establishment of the Protestant churches. |
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| -Acting on this belief, he wrote the “Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences,” also known as “The 95 Theses,” a list of questions and propositions for debate. Popular legend has it that on October 31, 1517 Luther defiantly nailed a copy of his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church. |
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| -Polish astronomer who promulgated the now accepted theory that the earth and the other planets move around the sun (the Copernican System) |
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| - 483–1546, German theologian and author: leader, in Germany, of the Protestant Reformation. |
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| -the period of great advances in the sciences, roughly 1500-1700 |
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| measured or considered as being seen from the center of the sun. |
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| - the act or practice of indulging; gratification of desire. |
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| -1564–1642, Italian physicist and astronomer. |
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| German printer: credited with invention of printing from movable type. |
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