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After the European Renaissance (fifteenth to sixteenth centuries) brought a sea change of cultural and intellectual values, attention was drawn away from the world beyond and back to this world. There was a renewed interest in and awareness of ancient Greek and Roman thought and its focus on the natural world. This new orientation was known as humanism and led to revolutions in philosophical thought. Many important philosophers from the early modern era addressed questions of the mind in ways that still have relevance to modern psychology. The Renaissance also heralded the beginnings of modern science.