Just as artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci – partaking of the zeitgeist though not himself a humanist – advocated study of human anatomy, nature, and weather to enrich Renaissance works of art, so Spanish-born humanist Juan Luis Vives (c. 1493–1540) advocated observation, craft, and practical techniques to improve the formal teaching of Aristotelian philosophy at the universities, helping to free them from the grip of Medieval Scholasticism. Thus, the stage was set for the adoption of an approach to natural philosophy, based on empirical observations and experimentation of the physical universe, making possible the advent of the age of scientific inquiry that followed the Renaissance. COUNT 4
QSN1 Who felt that the further examination and knowledge of studies in the arena of humanism could further art? ANS1 Leonardo da Vinci QSN2 Who helped to further the movement away from Scholasticism of the time? ANS2 Juan Luis Vives QSN3 Where did this initiate? ANS3 universities QSN4 What type of philosophy was essential to this forwarding of thought? ANS4 Aristotelian