Exploration and new knowledge

The topics in this section include:

• A rebirth of knowledge
• The humanists
• Myth: new subjects to conquer
• Copernicus and the solar-centred universe
• Paracelsus: alchemy to chemistry
• Bacon and the scientific method
• Herbs, plants, and animals
• The water closet
• Machiavelli
• Montaigne
• The New World