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