History of Science 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sexually Transmitted Infection, Grave Robbery, Headache
11 Mar 2014
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Art: artist discovering how to paint in three dimensions and new light, breaking away from religious traditions of medieval world, various aspects of life are showing a movement away from the plague, new techniques, perspectives. Religion: due to wide spread corruption in catholic church exposed by likes of martin. Luther (1517: he listed 95 reasons why the catholic church is corrupted, he reformed protestant reformation, renaissance in religion people rejecting catholic church, esp after plague cause saw church couldn"t protext them during that time. He was an anatomist as well as painter, architect etc. His art first lead him to dissection but he pursued anatomical interest with animals. He was granted permission to study at a university in florence. Slept in morgue obsessed with dead bodies. Considered classical scholar, physician, anatomist, artist, humanist. Member of first generation of scholars in western europe to enjoy access to complete works of galen.
