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History essay Why was their so many medical breakthroughs and discoveries in the medical renaissance? Since the terrible plague of Black Death, may people were growing wealthier and had more money to spend on luxuries and education, as literacy was increasing and there were many more schools in the 16th and 17th centuries, this obviously leading to an a lot more intellectual country, the wealth and education meant they could develop on ideas and properly record findings, and begin to seriously develop on medical science. As people grew more intelligent and bold in their findings, people began to challenge ideas, such as Copernicus said the earth travelled round the sun, not the sun round the earth. Protestants challenged the pope and the Catholic Church. And of course many ideas that had been recorded in Galen's time began to be challenged, as three great medical scientists began to appear, William Harvey, Andreas Versailles...

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