Unit 6: The Birth of Modern Knowledge

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Unit 6: The Birth of Modern Knowledge
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The early-modern period saw revolutionary changes in knowledge, particularly in the West. In the Renaissance, the recovery and study of ancient texts created a sense of fresh intellectual possibilities. The flood of knowledge coming out of the Americas—a world of which the ancient Greeks and Romans had known nothing—added to the intellectual self-confidence of a society that had come to define itself as “modern.” The Scientific Revolution set forth a model of natural knowledge as empirical and mathematical, rather than one based on the study of a narrow range of ancient texts.

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