Renaissance and enlightenment

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Idea :

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Ideas can be defined as a new way of looking at something, as a solution to an existing problem or a new approach.

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Inovation :

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An innovation can be another word for a way of doing something or a product that is new.

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Renaissance :

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The renaissance was a time period based around scientific and artistic innovations. The term “renaissance” means rebirth. It started in Italy. It’s a period between the 1400s - 1600s.

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Enlightenment :

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This period is important to the history of ideas as it saw many changes in the fields of science, philosophy, politics and mathematics. The Enlightenment is also called “Age of Reason”. This is because the use of reason became an important way that thinkers of the time approached many questions in their field of study.

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7 Scientific innovations and ideas of the Renaissance

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The printing press
Advances in astronomy
Telescope
The Mona Lisa
Classicism
Perspective
Humanism

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The printing press :

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The printing press was invented by Johannes Gutenberg from Mainz in Germany in 1450. It was a machine that lets people make books faster.

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The Mona Lisa :

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A painting done by leonardo da vinci, that looks like she has many expressions. The mona lisa doesn’t affect my life or my country but it does affect other countries and artists that got influenced about the type of art.

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Telescope :

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The telescope made us able to see things from far away, this helped us discover stuff from the sky and much more.

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What were the advances in astronomy :

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Copernicus put forward the theory that the sun was the center of the galaxy rather than the Earth was the center of the universe, which is what everyone else used to believe in.

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Perspective :

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One technique that was developed was called “chiaroscuro” which involved the use of light and shade for a more realistic image. An artistic term. It’s a very specific artistic technique to make it realistic.

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Classicism :

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During the renaissance this was the idea of reassuring the art and architecture from ancient Greece and ancient rome.

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Humanism :

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An idea during the renaissance, meaning the focus on humans and what is important in human experience compared to animals. Also means the science of the human body and what makes us work. This included the anatomy and physiology of the body.

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9 Scientific innovations and ideas of the Enlightenment

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Scientific method
Encyclopedias
Absolutism
Electricity
Empiricism
Vaccination
Variolation
The leviathan
Cogito, ergo sum

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Scientific method :

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A working theory, when new data is collected or discovered, the Method continues and a new theory is developed.

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Encyclopedias :

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A series of books that had a little bit of information that had ideas from a lot of topics.

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Absolutism :

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Thomas Hobbes created the idea of wanting to have a ruler, like a king or queen, that there should only be one leader.

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Was electricity found in the enlightenment or renaissance?

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Enlightenment

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Empiricism :

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A scientific technique of only using evidence to prove your hypothesis.

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Vaccination :

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A way of getting rid of disease and a method to get rid of it. Using vaccination to help us with immunity. Created by edward jenner. It all started from smallpox. They help our society today so that we are immune to most diseases and sicknesses.

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Variolation :

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This was a technique that involved people being exposed to a small dose of smallpox in hope that they would catch a mild form of the disease.

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The leviathan :

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The novel by Thomas Hobbes, explains the idea of absolutism.

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Cogito, ergo sum :

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It is latin which means “i think, therefore i am”

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8 Significant individuals of the Renaissance

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Leonardo Da Vinci
The Renaissance Man
Michelangelo
Nicolaus Copernicus
Niccolo Machiavelli
William Shakespeare
Galileo Galilei
Francesco Petrarch

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Leonardo Da Vinci :

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Da Vinci is a famous artist, He also focused on the study of human anatomy, religion, science, and mathematics. He did everything.

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The Renaissance Man :

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The Renaissance man is Leonardo Da Vinci, this means someone educated who is highly skilled and talented in many different things.

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Michelangelo :

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He was a very famous painter and sculptor. He is famous for sculptures and for painting the famous works of art on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. He grew up in Florence and was taught by many of the best artists and sculptors of his time.

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Nicolaus Copernicus :

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He was the astronomer guy who had the theory that the earth moves around the sun instead of the sun moving around us.

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Niccolo Machiavelli :

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An Italian philosopher, who wrote a book called prince. In his book, he said a good leader is a good person, who does good. he proved that the sun was the center of the galaxy not earth.

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William Shakespeare :

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An English poet, created the language shakespeare.

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Galileo Galilei :

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He invented a telescope to let humans see the moon very clearly, this happened for the first time.

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Francesco Petrarch :

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An important Italian poet, he tracked down numerous books from the Ancient Greeks and Romans at the library in Florence. He created the sonnet.

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7 Significant individuals of the Enlightenment

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Immanuel Kant
David Hume
Rene Descartes
Edward Jenner
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Immanuel Kant :

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German philosopher who created the golden rule. ‘Treat people the way you want to be treated’. As well as he created “Categorical Imperative”, which is an idea related to morality (what is right and wrong).

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David Hume :

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A British philosopher who believed that people believe what is right and wrong based on what they feel.

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Rene Descartes :

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Created cogito, ergo sum. He did a thought experiment that is ‘if i think, that means i am real’. If we are in a video game, or a dream, as long as we can think, then we are real.

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Edward Jenner :

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He invented vaccination. Created the cure for smallpox by giving the people cowpox which prevented them from getting smallpox.

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Thomas Hobbes :

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Supported absolutism, meaning he supported having one clear leader like a queen and king. As he believed that people tend to be very selfish, but a king or queen would be able to control people better than any democracy

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John Locke :

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He believed that people had natural rights and every human had the right to be free and have the right to have their own stuff. All he cared about was that the government must protect these human rights.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau :

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He believed that the government and culture are what make humans bad or evil, he believes that the government is always bad. He wrote a book which proposed a deal between the people and the government on how society works.