How Did Nicolaus Vesalius Change Human Thinking?

Copernicus is a known during the Renaissance as the astronomer who hypothesized that the Earth revolved around the sun in a heliocentric universe. Copernicus’s strong accurate view on the universe was shocking at his time because popular belief was that the Earth was the center of everything and not the sun. If Copernicus’s findings were published during his lifetime, he would have been burned at the stake, but luckily for him, Copernicus published his findings after his death. Copernicus’s idea for the heliocentric universe is a great example of what Renaissance people do. Both Magellan and Copernicus are again like the other Renaissance figures different, but had the same outcome.

Anybody can tell just by looking at the diagrams of the solar system from the two different time periods that there was a big gap in between the thoughts of the two men who made them. Ptolemy, the man who made it in the medieval period, made people believe that the earth was in the center of our solar system, and the sun was the third planet from the earth. He also made people believe that, “the outer sphere… the Empire of Heaven and Home of God and the Elect” (DBQ Online Document C). These facts were not only untrue, but they also caused everyone to believe that this was correct.

Throughout the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Europeans’ world view was affected by several scientific breakthroughs. This period of achievement is referred to as the Scientific Revolution. The Scientific Revolution was not a single event, rather a series of events with contributions from many people. Some of its main causes include individuals, the book written by Nicolaus Copernicus, and the loss of power by the Catholic church. During this period, scholars made lasting contributions that continue to affect the modern world.

Curiosity of the human body and deeper knowledge about art and literature became two popular areas throughout the Renaissance. Leonardo daVinci drew beautiful pieces of art that depicted the natural and realistic human body and it’s internal muscle and bone structures. The drawings of the human body by daVinci, show that he was not afraid to go the distance and have no limits as to how far he will push himself to understand the human body (Document 6). Leonardo was a true Renaissance man. In addition, another evidential person who leads a reader towards making the inference that the Renaissance is a separate era from the Middle Ages, is Johannes Kepler. Johannes Kepler was an astronomer from Germany that made an observation about people in the Middle Ages that tend to follow and agree with everything the priests say. Johannes said that with the distinct knowledge of the Renaissance, people now had their own education and had the power to question what others said or thought (Document 7).

Shakespeare, recognize that name? Well I bet you've heard it before. Shakespeare is a play writter from the fifteen hundreds. Which seems like a long time ago, and that's because it was a long time ago. See shakespeare has written many incredible famous plays that we even still perform today, such plays include: Romeo and Juliet, and many more. His life was so imcredible different from our but yet we still relate to it so much and love his plays to this very day. Keep reading to learn and find out how shakespeare's life was so different to ours, and simply about the misterious life of William Shakespeare.

Galileo Galilei was an Italian Renaissance man, who used a telescope of his own invention to collect some evidence that supported a Sun-centered model of the Solar System. Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy, on February 15, 1564, the first of seven children of Vincenzo Galilei and Giulia Ammanati. In 1609, Galileo created a telescope, based of a type of telescope built by Dutch eyeglass makers, and pointed it towards the sky, his discoveries proved the Doctrine of Aristotle, an order set by the Catholic Church, wrong. After a hundred years of deciding which theory was right, the Vatican finally sided with Galileo.

William Shakespeare is a well-known English playwright and poet who has written many different plays and sonnets. He was considered a celebrity in his time because of the plays that he wrote and directed when they were performed in The Globe. He wrote comedies, tragedies, and histories. Comedies were plays that ended with two characters getting married. Tragedies were plays where the main character gets killed. Histories told stories about the lives of kings and other famous people. His work is still very well-known in today’s society because it is still being taught in schools even though Shakespeare has been dead for a long time. He also influenced

Nicolas Copernicus was a a polish astronomer. He had a theory that the sun is the center of the universe and that the Earth is spinning on its axis daily. This is called heliocentric or sun-centered

Shakespeare wrote his plays, poems, and other works during the time of Elizabethan England. This is a very interesting time period in history because many new revolutions and reforms were taking place. The most important one regarding Shakespeare was the Italian Renaissance. You see, Early Modern English which is what we call the English that Shakespeare wrote in was very messy regarding its structure and vocabulary when you compared it to languages such as Latin and Greek. When Shakespeare was starting to write his works, the English language was going through incredible changes, absorbing and integrating words from other languages due to the events that were happening in the 1600s such as colonization, exploration, war, and others. There was a huge return to philosophical thinking in Italy and a new way of expressing ideas that we today call the Renaissance.

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-Avon, England on April of 1564. He was an actor, poet, and playwright who impacted the world with his works who later died on April 24th 1616. He created 1700 words in the English language by changing nouns into verbs, changing verbs into adjectives and combining words into phrases that no one else has ever put together before. Shakespeare’s became more recognized during the 16th century when he was striving as an actor and playwright. To this day he is still very well known for his plays, like “Romeo and Juliet”, “Hamlet”, and “Macbeth”. Many have made remakes of his plays or have acted them out in school and still do today. What makes Shakespeare influential is how he worked his way to the top just by expressing how he felt in

The Renaissance is described as a time of great human invention and a flourishment of everything to do with society, while its period of time before the Renaissance is overshadowed, the Middle ages was also a great time of the human race’s timeline. The Renaissance changed views of the Middle Ages, from astronomy to anatomy, the Renaissance greatly influenced a more modern way of viewing topics, as well as modern idealistic qualities. In the cases of anatomy and astronomy, the difference could be because of the religious beliefs of the time, and not the actual information, as the Roman Catholic Church had a great effect on everything in the Middle Ages. Though the differences are obvious, they did not define either of the time periods.

During the peak of the Renaissance the Scientific Revolution came about, and through Renaissance ideals theories developed of how the universe was structured from thinkers such as Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo. When the Scientific Revolution was born in the mid 1500’s, scientists started contradicting the theories of Aristotle and Ptolemy and the theory of how planet Earth was the center of the universe, which was an ideal of humanism. Copernicus, a Polish scientist during the revolution, formed a theory that the universe was heliocentric. Furthermore, through humanism Copernicus constructed this heliocentric theory that caused tension in the Church and society at the time. This followed another ideal of the Renaissance, which was the contradiction

I have been tasked with comparing and contrasting two works of art; one visual and one literary, while doing so I will then locate a shared theme in contemporary culture. My visual piece of art will be the sketch of The Vitruvian Man by Leonardo Da Vinci. Leonardo’s sketch of The Vitruvian Man was created around 1487 in his notebooks. For my literary work of art, I chose to work with Andreas Cesalius’ piece called De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (Latin for: On the fabric of the human body in seven books). Andreas Cesalius published his series of books about the human body around 1543. I will continue the comparing and contrasting Da Vinci & Cesalius’ work from the Italian Renaissance and the theme of Anatomy.

It had motivated people to question the wisdom, especially of the Catholic Church. Humanism had also made people want to use experimentation and observation to solve earthly problems. As noted earlier, people studied different areas of science, biology, and astronomy. During the Middle Ages, people believed that each zodiac, or a group of 12 constellations that stretch across the sky, sign each controlled different parts of the body. But, during the Renaissance, people used cadavers to better explain the human body. Astronomy was an area that people began to study in the Renaissance. In the Middle Ages, Ptolemy developed a theory that the Earth was the center of the universe. The Catholic Church accepted his idea. However, Copernicus, who lived during the Renaissance, thought that Ptolemy’s statement was incorrect and developed a different understanding of the universe using mathematics. He realized that the Sun was the center of the universe (Document C) (Document D)

Andreas Vesalius was one of the greatest minds of the Renaissance, he is frequently referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy. The reason he accurately represents the Renaissance is because of his dedication, persistence and intelligence. He was extremely dedicated to learn the truth about the human anatomy. No matter the difficulties that he came across, he was determined to find the truth, and because of this, he created the basic outline of human anatomy in modern studies and shared his knowledge by writing his book called “De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem”, which is translated into “On the Fabric of the Human Body”.