... more people to adopt these ideas, but also bypassed Ecclesiastical control and it was made possible to disseminate ideologies, opinions and knowledge which were secular, further catalyzing the people's spirit of inquiry. Another example, was the discovery of the mariner's compass by Gioja of Naples in 1302 which is said to have originated from China. The ability of this ... were sailing, not only enabling explorers to document their routes but gain an understanding of their surroundings, creating new notions about world geography, constituting a broadening of outlook. The discovery of th...

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... modern biology. Additionally, Vesalius instituted a hands-on style of instruction and insisted that his students also see the truth for themselves. Vesalius's new mindsets towards the discovery of knowledge constituted the change from Gnosticism to Empiricism. The change from unquestionable acceptance of medieval facts to the application of empiricism and rationalism laid the foundation for other scientists not ... only in terms of the unprecedented scientific knowledge, but also the new mindsets towards examining the natural world. The rediscovery of Greeko-Roman ideas led to questionin...

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... laws can describe the Age of Faith. Another label for the Middle Ages can be the Golden Age of Europe. During the late Middle Ages a growth of scientific and philosophical knowledge began to occur. There was an increase in attention to art and architecture. Europe started to move forward in terms of intellect and culture. The Golden Age of Europe' is ... vitality and exuberance. but even more it was creative and inventive, and transmitted to later ages great riches of its own."" (doc. #6) During the Middle Ages, knowledge from before is rediscovered. Rediscovering this lost knowledge of...

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... a theory, known as "the Geocentric Universe", that all life was centered around the earth. But about 1400 years later, a Polish astronomer, named Nicolaus Copernicus created a new theory relying on his knowledge of mathematics to develop a more modern and refined understanding of how the universe works. In Copernicus's theory, "the Heliocentric Universe," he shows the universe as how we know it today ... , with everything revolving around the Sun. When Copernicus revealed his theory to the public, the Catholic Church was not to happy with his discovery. According to them, Copernicus's ne...

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... the issues raised. In one classroom there were several teachers with different groups of students. To avoid this overlap, a distribution of students started, according to their level of knowledge, that with the passage of time resulted in the separation of students by age. Renaissance educators introduced the Greek higher education and replaced the Latin of the Church by the ... in the school itself or at the home of professors to attend the classes. It was a period of great inventions and discoveries in different fields: the invention of printing, the discovery of America, the establish...

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The Renaissance was basically a resurrection of cultural knowledge and learning that occurred in Europe during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Hence, when it occurred, a restoration of the classical forms that were originally started by the ancient Greeks and ... capture the allure of the natural world, or the appearance of it. In many ways, the renaissance period in art history correlates with the start of the western age of discovery, as there was a popular aspiration to analyze all details of nature and the world. Artists would also try to grasp the fine aspects of structure and m...

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... and become a strong period. The compass became a really important instrument. It made it easy to navigate and it became a basis for every great voyage, which turned into a remarkable and influential discovery. Maybe if it weren't for this instrument the America's would have never been discovered. Firearms were also were barely being introduced. They gave Europeans a great advantage over other cultures because ... can say that we don't know what the world would be without them. These patterns will hopefully continue to bring us the unexpected to only make the world BETTER because knowled...

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... away many of the old ideas of supernatural power and fate and replaced them with revolutionary discoveries. Those first revolutionary discoveries were the ones that gave a start to the modern knowledge we have in our present day. Numerous assumptions and theories about the universe and the human body were changed when innovative discoveries by people such as Johanis Kepler and Issac ... was also incited. At first, many ordinary changes and advances occurred, the development of a more advanced plow, led to more beneficial agricultural changes that helped the production of crops. The disc...

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