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HUMANISM AND KNOWLEDGE
Humanism was a cultural movement that began in the 14th century. It developed fully in the 15th and 16th centuries 
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Humanist artists and thinkers were supported by patrons
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Cardinal Cisneros set up the University of Alcalá de Henares as a centre of theology, a study revived by the humanists.
Due to his influence, Humanism had a clear Christian character in Castilla.
Sir Thomas More was an important English lawyer and author. He defended the right of the individual conscience against the power of the state. In his book Utopia
Erasmus of Rotterdam was born in the Netherlands. He criticised the vices of society, especially those at the heart of the Church. He called for reform based on an individual’s freedom of choic
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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.
Around 1440, Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable-type printing press. Books could be produced more easily and ideas spread more quickly.
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During the Renaissance, thinkers and academics became interested in understanding the world that surrounded them, and the natural processes that occurred in it
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. This theory contradicted the geocentric theory
MEDICINE
the treaty of anatomy by Vesalius, who was born in Flanders
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During this period, it was established that the Earth was spherical.
Modern cartography also began. Maps were created based on the world map drawn by Gerardus Mercator, in 1569. Mercator’s map showed all the lands discovered up until that date.
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