The Renaissance

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  • Created on: 02-01-18 16:31
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  • The Renaissance
    • Scholars
      • Compiled a 'world view' of medicine
      • Questioned old beliefs
      • Conducted experiments, collecting observations and finding conclusions
    • Artists
      • Attended human dissections so they could draw bodies accurately
        • Used by doctors and improved knowledge in anatomy
    • Background
      • Introduced the idea of a more scientific method
      • Wasn't accepted by everyone
      • Voyages allowed different cultures to trade ideas/share treatments
      • Food came from new lands and introduced new crops, improving diet and increasing the health of Europe
      • New inventions such as the printing press and the microscope
      • Vesalius and Harvey challenged ideas of the ancients to develop accurate views on the body
    • New Inventions
      • Printing Press
        • Invented by German blacksmith Johannes Gutenberg
          • Invented a machine which applied pressure to a print medium
        • Books no longer had to be handwritten and could be copied quickly in large numbers
          • New ideas could be copied down and sent to more people
          • Old books from the Greeks, Muslims and Romans were rediscovered, printed and sent over Europe
    • Warfare
      • Inventors wanted to be the best war advisor so invented new things
        • By 1500 canons and guns were being used
      • Surgeons had to deal with new wounds by finding new methods of treatment

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