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HUMANISM AND KNOWLEDGE - Coggle Diagram
HUMANISM AND KNOWLEDGE
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THE SPREAD OF KNOWLEDGE
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
SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE
During the Renaissance, thinkers and academics became interested in understanding the world that surrounded them, and the natural processes that occurred in it
their cientific metod was based on observation and experimentation
ASTRONOMY
heliocentric theory. which claimed that the Earth and all the other planets orbited the Sun.
geocentric theory developed by Ptolemy in the 2nd century, which claimed that the Earth was the immobile centre of the Universe
scan physicist Galileo Galilei proved Copernicus’ theory using a new invention, the telescope
MEDICINE
Although there was widespread opposition to clinical trials, the following advances were made:
the treaty of anatomy by Vesalius, who was born in Flanders
the theory of pulmonary circulation of blood by Miguel Servet
the development of pharmacology by Swiss physician Paracelsus
GEOGRAPHY
Modern cartography also began. Maps were created based on the world map drawn by Gerardus Mercator, in 1569
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