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How did Humanism influence science and technology?

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Humanist scholarship provided both originals and translations of ancient Greek scientific works—which enormously increased the fund of knowledge in physics, astronomy, medicine, botany, and other disciplines—and presented as well alternative theories to those of Ptolemy and Aristotle.

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As humanism put faith in man's inherent ability to apply his own logic (or reason) to solve problems, as opposed to seeking the help of the supernatural, we can see the development of the scientific method. This was a method of hypothesis, observation and experimentation.

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