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Read the following excerpt and answer the questions that follow:
"The Renaissance thinkers attacked scholasticism saying that it fed on itself, with its circular reasoning within a close system in which the basic premises bore no relation to reality. They asserted that knowledge could be gained by going out and studying mentally and manually the Book of Nature." (Source: https://egyankosh.ac.in/bitstream/123456789/12890/1/Unit-7.pdf)
(a) Who were some original thinkers that influenced the Renaissance?
(b) How did these original thinkers contribute to the Renaissance?
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(a) Abelard, Roger Bacon, and Thomas Aquinas were some original thinkers that influenced the Renaissance.
(b) The original thinkers revolutionised thought and laid a great stress on the spirit of enquiry, reasoning, independent thinking and scientific investigation. The spirit of enquiry, original and free thinking gave great impetus to the Renaissance movement.
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