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HUMANISM AND KNOWLEDGE - Coggle Diagram
HUMANISM AND KNOWLEDGE
Humanism
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the love of knowledge
Humanists believed that a person’s prestige not only depended on their wealth and power, but also on their education.
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erasmus of rotterdam
He criticised the vices of society, especially those at the heart of the Church
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cardinal cisneros
Cardinal Cisneros set up the University of Alcalá de Henares as a centre of theology, a study revived by the humanists.
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The spread of knowledge
the printing press
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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scientific knowledge
thinkers and academics became interested in understanding the world that surrounded them. study of nature was based on observation and experimentation. The aim was to find a well-reasoned explanation for natural phenomena
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astronomy
in the 16th century Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus developed the heliocentric theory and in the 17th century Galileo Galilei proved Copernicus theory using a new invention the telescope
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medicine
In the 17th century, the microscope was invented, leading to advances in clinical and medical research.
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geography
during this period, it was established that the Earth was spherical. maps were created based on the world map drawn by Gerardus Mercator, in 1569
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