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Humanism and Knowledge
HUMANISM
Humanism was a cultural movement that began in the 14th century and completely ended in the 15th and 16th centuries in the Italian peninsula.
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Painting press
Around 1440, Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable type printing press. This caused books to spread more quickly and ideas to be easier to imagine.
Sir Thomas More 
Cardinal Cisneros
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Astronomy
In the 16th century Nicholas Copernicus through a theory said that the earth and the other planets revolved around the sun. This theory contradicted Ptolemy's theory that the earth was the center of the universe.
In the 17th century Galileo Galilei proved Copernicus theory. But the Church punish him.
Geography
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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