Aristotle

It seems to be almost a total effort to dismantle Aristotle. His ideas were pretty much all that was round, and he had influence. But then, that all changed when his ideas were pretty much revolted against. There were 3 specific areas that were attacked; religion, politics, and medicine. It seemed almost like a methodical destruction of everything Aristotle. Machiavelli was able to take down his politics and put in place new ideas, his own ideas. In religion, Luther was very much on the opposite side of Aristotle, and came up with his own views. And finally in medicine Vaselius did his own research and found out that medicine was nothing like Aristotle's belief. Its almost like there was just a sudden turning on a man who had been dead for a while, but whose ideas were still around.

This is important because it shows a shift in thinking. People were moving away from Aristotle and were coming up with new ideas on subjects that were probably considered explained. For the church, this could affect them or it could not. For medicine, "theology and religious practice depended very little on Galenic medicine" which is what Vaselius recanted. "Vesalius was not a threat" so the Church didn't have to worry about his findings. However, the Church did have to worry about Luther because his ideas opposed that of the Church. The Church really only cares about itself, and it will allow new ideas, as long as they don't oppose its own beliefs. They only pass judgement on things which relate to themselves or they have direct opinions on. This is a lot of things though because the Church is expanding. Also, most of religion is up to interpretation so the Church's ideas are very widespread.