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HUMANISM AND KNOWLEDGE - Coggle Diagram
HUMANISM AND KNOWLEDGE
HUMANISM
Humanism was a cultural movement that began in the 14th century. It developed fully in the 15th and 16th centuries, in the rich city-states of the northern part of the Italian Peninsula.
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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
ASTRONOMY
In the 16th century, Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus developed the heliocentric theory, which claimed that the Earth and all the other planets orbited the Sun
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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
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GEOGRAPHY
Modern cartography also began. Maps were created based on the world map drawn by Gerardus Mercator, in 1569.
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During this period, it was established that the Earth was spherical.
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