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Humanism and Knowledge
- Humanism
Humanism was a cultural movement that began in the 14th century. It developed fully in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Humanists developed an anthropocentric world view as an alternative to the God-centred world view of medieval Christians.
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It's a fact
The eminent Spanish humanist Antonio de Nebrija was the author of the first grammar textbook (1492) and the first dictionary (1495) of the Castilian language.
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Humanist ideas and knowledge spread more rapidly in the Modern Age than in the Middle Ages, when knowledge was spread through books written by hand, mostly by clergymen in monasteries.
The Printing Press: Around 1440, Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable-type printing press. It improved literacy, and intellectual life.
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Scientific Knowledge
They revived the scientific method used in Ancient Greece and Rome, where the study of nature was based on observation and experimentation.
The aim was to find a well-reasoned explanation for natural phenomena and provide empirical evidence.
Astronomy
(16th century) Nicolaus Copernicus developed the Heliocentric theory, who said that the earth and other planets orbited the sun.
This theory contradicted Geocentric theory (developed by Ptolemy in the 2nd century) that said all the planets orbited the earth.
In the 17th century, Galileo Galiei proved Copernicus' theory using a telescope (new invention). However, Galileo was condemned by the Church, which didn't accept the empirical evidence Nicolaus proved.
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