16 out 1434 ano - renaissance

Descrição:

irreverance of current authority, latin or arab

a fascination with the ancient

a fascination with the distant (america)

non institutional, extra-scholastic and at times anti-scholastic intellectual life (due to favroable economic conditions, patronage, printing press)

emphasis on mathematics (rather than logics)

neo platonism rather than aristotle

magic, alchemy, astrology (occult powers? an unseen world? metaphysics?)

man in the center, a sympathetic universe