New Ideas, New Technologies, New Science

Renaissance

* Rebirth
* Increase in interest of: Literature, Science, Architecture
* Improvement in understanding, no change in treatments
* Battle broke out of religion vs science
* Church lost power

The Royal Society

* A meeting place for educated people interested in science.
* Attended by King Charles II
* Made a journal that supported the spread of new ideas

Invention of the printing press

Allowed ideas to be shared quickly and cheaply, without the Church restricting anything.

Andreas Vesalius

* Proved through public directions that Galen’s human anatomy was wrong
* Made a book called ‘The Fabric of the Human Body”. filled with illustrations

Invention of the microscope

Allowed for more detailed understanding of the human anatomy

The water pump

Led people to view the body as a machine

Thomas Sydenham

* Believed in hands-on experience rather than learning from a book
* Categorised illnesses in the same way plants have a ‘type’
* Improved diagnosis
* Wrote Observationes Medicae which was used as a standard textbook in medical schools.