5 features

1. Renaissance
Features of

2. “Renaissance”
means
“Rebirth”

3. Time : 14th century
17th century
Place : Began in Italy
Origin : From a French word

4. Features of the Renaissance
 The New Learning
The Renaissance Man
The Reformation
The New World
The New Cosmos

5.  The New Learning
 The printing press
 Humanism

6. The printing press
1455 - The printing press
is invented by Johannes
Gutenberg.
1476 - William Caxton
sets up a press in England

7. Humanism

8. Someone who is
interested in Science,
Literature, Arts and
supported Humanism
Example: Henry VIII
The Renaissance Man

9. 1492 - Christopher
Colombus discover a new
continent (America).
The New World

10. It was a movement to
reform the corrupt Church
& Pope.
The Reformation

11. The Ptolemaic cosmos pictured a
stationary earth around which rotated
the moon, many stars, and planets.
1543 - Copernicus gave a theory
where he said the sun is the center
not the earth. Which create debate.
The New Cosmos