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When was the printing press invented and by who?
The printing press was invented by Johannes Gutenberg in the 1450's.
By1500 printing presses were being used throughout Western Europe.
Gunpowder was developed in the 1300's and by 1500 cannons and guns were widely used on the battlefield.
When were the first effective microscopes developed?
The first effective microscopes were developed in the 1600's.
The Renaissance led to the renewedfaith in the Theory of the Four Humours, treatment by opposites, bleeding andherbal remedies.
Printing soon proved to be extremelyimportant in the rapid spread of new and more accurate knowledge and ideas.
TheReformation weakened the hold of the Roman Catholic Church on educationand learning as well as religion.
Newtheories were developed to explain all aspects of the world including medicine.
In1527, in Basel Paracelsus burntsome of Galen’s books because he said they had been proved to be inaccurate.
Many professors, physicians etc. like Paracelsus rejected the theory of the four humours.
Vesalius dissectedhuman bodies and discovered many things that Galen got wrong.
Vesalius proved that:

- humans have one jaw bone, not two as Galen said


- humans have a different hip bone to that of an ox


- the human heart does not have invisible pores in it.

Pare’scontributions to medicine are largely due to two factors; WAR and CHANCE.
Pare would not have made his discovery if he was not an army surgeon and unlike Vesalius he did not deliberately attempt experiments to prove old theory wrong