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(Renaissance 2010).
Da Vinci questioned the prevailing faith in the written word of the bible and instead sought knowledge of nature in nature. He simply observed the physical world and began to draw conclusions about it. He dissected bodies in order to study human anatomy despite the long-standing Church policy against such practices. He studied the human organ systems and the skeleton. His research, drawing upon the methodology of men like Bacon, "heralded the birth of a new method of scientific study: the systematic, descriptive method of the natural sciences, which was the predominant method of scientific study well into the 19th century" (Renaissance 2010). Via men like Da Vinci, the Republics and city-states of Italy in some ways made the modern world and its system of scientific thinking (Sobek 2003, 209).
In the twenty-first century when scientific research has produced so many amazing innovations, it is easy to forget that this all did not come about by chance. The scientific method was something developed slowly over time and which was in no way a destined fact and outcome of...
There was a certain element of chance and choice in the matter. Above all else, it entailed the determination of certain men to exert their will that the world ought to be studied and that knowledge should not exist under a shroud of secrecy or darkness. The Humanists wanted to unlock the secrets of nature in order to better the plight of man. We are still benefitting from their endeavors today.
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Burckhardt, Jacob. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. New York: The Modern
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http://www.mos.org/leonardo/bio.html.
Considered part of the Northern Renaissance, German Renaissance developed in the 15th and 16th centuries among German thinkers who had traveled to Italy, the cradle of the movement, and had been inspired to import it to Germany. Humanism exerted a strong influence over the arts and sciences in several German principalities, and coincided with a period of political development. Painting was one of the most prominent ways of artistic expression within
BIRTH CINTROL AND Self-INDUCED ABORTIONS IN ANCIENT Birth Control and Self-Induced abortions in Ancient Rome The approach of having an abortion, the extinction of a pregnancy so that a baby is not born goes all the way back to ancient times. Pregnancies were ended through a number of approaches, and that does include the application of abort made herbs, the handling of extremely sharp tools, the necessity of putting pressure on the
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