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| the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world. |
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| of or relating to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal: |
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| any system or mode of thought or action in which human interests, values, and dignity predominate. |
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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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| a seeking or request for truth, information, or knowledge. |
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| The Protestant Reformation was the 16th-century religious, political, intellectual and cultural upheaval that splintered Catholic Europe, setting in place the structures and beliefs that would define the continent in the modern era. |
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| the act or practice of indulging; gratification of desire. |
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| a machine, as a cylinder press or rotary press, for printing on paper or the like from type, plates, etc. |
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