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8.1- HUMANISM AND KNOWLEDGE - Coggle Diagram
8.1- HUMANISM AND KNOWLEDGE
Humanism
what is humanism?
was a cultural movement
began in Italy in the 14th century
then spread across the Western Europe
in 15th and 16th centuries
this are the main characteristics in humanism:
2.-The revival of antiquity
is the ancient past
especially the period of classical/human civilizations
before the Middle ages
3.- The love of knowledge
humanistic belived that persons not only prestigate
in the things that have relation of religion
also they prestigate of their education
Leonardo da Vinci also estudied
anatomy, botanic and mechanisc
the Humanistics use Latin and Greek
1.-Anthropocentrism
are the belifes that human beings
are the most important entity in the universe
Humanistic artists and thinkers were supporter by patrons
in some cities humanistics create academies
the most important academi was in florence
apart for this they are other important humanist in Florence:
Sir Thomas more
Cardinal Cisneros
Erasmus
The Spread of Knowledge
The printing Press
in 1440
Johannes Gutenberg
invented the movable-type printing press.
thanks of this the books were created easily
they spread rapidly in the Modern Age
than in the Middle Ages
when this happend the books were written by hand
Scientific Knowledge
this methos was used in the Ancient Greece and Rome
this was based in the
experimentation
observation
what was the aim?
was to find a well reasoned explanation fo natural phenomeno
Astronomy:
what is this?
is the study of everything in the universe
beyond Earth’s atmosphere.
In the 16th century
Nicolaus Copernicus
developed the heliocentric theory,
what do this theory?
claimed that the Earth and all the other planets orbited the Sun
In the 17th century
,Tuscan physicist Galileo Galilei
what does proved?
Copernicus’ theory using a new invention, the telescope.
Medicine:
the treaty of anatomy by Vesalius,
in Flandes
theory of pulmonary circulation of blood
by Miguel Servet
development of pharmacology
by Paracelsus.
geography:
during the period the earth was spherical
the word map was draw by Gerardus Mercator
in 1569
was composed by
parallels and meridians
that were used to locate any point in the world.
