Bitesize: Medicine in the Renaissance, c1500-1700
c1500-1700 · Resource
Edexcel revision guide on the challenge to Galen: Vesalius on anatomy, Harvey on the circulation of the blood, the growth of observation and the printing press, and the government response to the Great Plague of 1665.
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Around 1600
- English Civil War (1642)
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- Edo period (1603)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Reign of Elizabeth I (1558)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Reign of Louis XIV (the Sun King) (1643)