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English renaissance

Published on Nov 19, 2015

Celebrating humanity.

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

English renaissance

Celebrating humanity.

Ren·ais·sance
[ren-uh-sahns]

The activity, spirit, and time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning.

Battle of Bosworth Field
(22 August 1485)

New learning

  • Retrieval of classical texts
  • New relationship with the Church
  • Evolution of scholasticism
  • Modern scientific thought

UNIVERSITIES

Universities stopped depending on the Church. This led to the birth of the humanist.

astronomy

  • Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543)
  • Johannes Kepler (1571–1630)
  • Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)
  • Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727)

medicine

  • Ambroise Paré (1510–1590)
  • Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564)
  • William Harvey (1578–1657)

The age of discovery

  • Columbus and the "West Indies"
  • The New World
  • The conquistadores

The printing press was invented by Gutenberg (1394-1468) in 1450 and introduced in England by William Caxton (1415-1492).

It was the main reason behind the success of Protestantism (even in England).