How did new ideas of the world in the Renaissance spread to create a whole other era of thinking and ideas? The Renaissance spread from Italy to western and northern Europe over a period of 300 years. During the Middle Ages many people had theories about the world that were very religiously and spiritually based, but the Renaissance was a time period where scientists started proving different theories with evidence that they had found. The Renaissance was a great time of art and literature that was started by the increase of use of the new invention of the printing press, which helped new ideas and theories become more accessible helping them spreading across the world from the wealthy to even the most impoverished people. How did the Renaissance procure change in man’s view of man? The Renaissance era greatly changed and influenced man’s view of man. It did this through the revival of dramas, improved theories of how the universe worked, and made new discoveries of the different parts of the human body.
The production of plays…show more content… In the Middle Ages, the view of the universe, as said by Ptolemy in the second century, was that all the planets and stars revolved around the Earth. Earth, and human beings were thought to be a microcosm of the universe. Before that people thought that the world was flat, and the stars and sun moved around Earth. During the Renaissance, a scientist named Copernicus found out that Earth and human beings were only a small fraction of the universe, and that the all of the planets in the solar system revolved around the sun and not Earth. The view of the universe, and how small of a part of it that human beings are, majorly contributed to the change of man’s view of man during the
