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UNIT 2

HUMANISM

CHARACTERISTICS

ANTHROPOCENTISM

THE REVIVAL OF ANTIQUITY

THE LOVE OF KNOWLEDGE

This individualist way of thinking focuses on humans and their capacity of making decisions using reason and intelligence

This individualist way of thinking focuses on humans and their capacity of making decisions using reason and intelligence

Humanists believed that a person's prestige not only depended on their wealth and power, but also on their education

IMPORTANT HUMANISTS

Marsilio Ficino and Pico della Mirandola

Erasmus of Rotterdam

Thomas Moore

Cardenal Cisneros

The printing press

With this new system, Books could be produced more easily

Humanist ideas and knowledge spread more rapidly than in the Middle Ages, when knowledge was spread through books written by hand, mostly by clergymen in monasteries

Intellectual life was no longer restricted those monasteries and universities.

It improved literacy, although most of the population still could not read or write at the time

The spread of knowledge

Scientific knowledge

Astronomy

Medicine

Geography

In the 16th century, Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus developed the theory of heliocentrism, which contradicted the theory of geocentrism developed by Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD. In the 17th century, Tuscan physicist Galileo Galilei proved Copernicus' theory using the telescope

Although there was widespread opposition to clinical trials, advances were made. An example is the theory of pulmonary circulation of the blood by Miguel Servet

During this period, it was established that the Earth was spherical. Modern cartography also began, with maps created based on the world map drawn by Gerardus Mercator in 1569

Renaissance in Italy