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Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution, Age of Exploration, & Enlightenment
Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution, Age of Exploration, & Enlightenment
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Leonardo Da Vinci
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Michelangelo
Michelangelo: Paintings, Sculpture, Biography Michelangelo Buonarotti |
Sandro Botticelli Botticelli, Sandro |
| Titian Titian Titian |
Donatello Donatello |
Raphael
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| Holbein Holbein, Hans the Younger Hans Holbein: Court Painter to England's Henry VIII |
Peter Bruegel Peter Bruegel the Elder |
Van Eyck Jan Van Eyck Jan Van Eyck: The Father of Oil Painting |
| Durer Durer,Albrecht Northern Renaissance - Albrecht Durer |
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John Locke
John Locke |
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Thomas Hobbes
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Queen Isabella I
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Charles-Louis Montesquieu
Charles-Louis Montesquieu |
Elizabeth I
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| Cosimo de Medici & the Medici Family The Medici Family The Medici: Artistic Patrons of the Renaissance Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance |
Mary I Mary I, Queen of England |
King Henry VIII
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Abigail Adams
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Madame Geoffrin
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| Dante Alighieri Dante Alighieri, Poet, Spiritual Writer Dante Alighieri (New Advent) |
William Shakespeare
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Erasmus Desiderius Erasmus (The History Guide) Desiderius Erasmus (New Advent) |
| Machiavelli Niccolo Machiavelli |
Miguel de Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes |
Lorenzo Medici
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| Petrarch Francesco Petrarch |
Thomas More Thomas More |
Voltaire Voltaire Biography |
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Cesare Beccaria
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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Olympe de Gouges
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Rene Descartes
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Antony van Leeuwenhoek Antonie van Leeuwenhoek |
Sir Francis Bacon Francis Bacon Francis Bacon BIography |
| Copernicus Nicolas Copernicus Nicholas Copernicus |
Isaac Newton Isaac Newton Biography Isaac Newton |
Johannes Kepler Kepler Johannes Kepler |
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Galileo
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Andres Vesalius Andreas Vesalius Andreas Vesalius |
Tycho Brahe
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Marco Polo
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Giovanni da Verrazano
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| Henry the Navigator Prince Henry the Navigator |
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| Pedro Cabral Pedro Cabral |
John Cabot John Cabot |
James Cook
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| Hernan Cortes Hernan Cortes Biography |
Sir Francis Drake - BBC |
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther |
Huldrych Zwingli Ulrich Zwingli: The Reformer of Zurich |
King Henry VIII Henry VIII from BBC History |
| John Calvin John Calvin Biography |
William Tyndale William Tyndale |
Jan Hus
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Desiderius Erasmus
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John Wycliffe
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Architects |
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Johann Gutenberg
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Filippo Brunelleschi
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