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Lesson 7: The Advance of Science and Technology During The Renaissance

During the Renaissance, there were many advancements in science and technology that led to a golden age of achievement. Important innovations included the printing press, which allowed for widespread circulation of books and ideas, and advances in fields like astronomy, anatomy, engineering, and technology. Scientists like Copernicus developed the theory of a heliocentric solar system, while anatomists like Vesalius published detailed studies of human dissection that advanced medical knowledge. The Renaissance was a time of rebirth and new thinking that fueled significant scientific and technological progress.

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Lesson 7: The Advance of Science and Technology During The Renaissance

During the Renaissance, there were many advancements in science and technology that led to a golden age of achievement. Important innovations included the printing press, which allowed for widespread circulation of books and ideas, and advances in fields like astronomy, anatomy, engineering, and technology. Scientists like Copernicus developed the theory of a heliocentric solar system, while anatomists like Vesalius published detailed studies of human dissection that advanced medical knowledge. The Renaissance was a time of rebirth and new thinking that fueled significant scientific and technological progress.

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Lesson 7: The Advance of Science and Technology

during the Renaissance

Renaissance was a time of creativity and change in Europe. It was a rebirth of cultural
and intellectual pursuits after the stagnation of the Middle Ages. The Renaissance produced a
golden age with many achievements in art, literature, and science, but most importantly, it
produced a new concept of how people thought of themselves, each other, and the world around
them.

The Renaissance was centered in Italy during the 1300s, before spreading throughout
Europe in the 1500 and 16009. Great advances occurred in geography, astronomy, chemistry,
physics, mathematics, manufacturing, anatomy and engineering.

Science and Technology Development:


 Michaelangelo is known as sculptor, painter, poet, engineer, and architect. His famous
works include the mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and the sculpture of the
biblical character David.
 The most important technological innovation of the time was the invention of the printing
press. This was introduced from China in the 1300s. By the 1400s, movable type was
being used in Europe as Johann Gutenberg began printing the Bible in every language.
Soon millions of books were in circulation. This invention led to a higher literacy rate
among people, and helped with the spreading of Renaissance ideas.
 Some important Renaissance technologies include both innovations and improvements on
existing techniques such as :
 mining and metallurgy: blast furnace, finery forge, slitting mill, arquebus and
musket
 firearms, and the nautical compass - these inventions allowed modern people to
communicate, exercise power, and finally travel at distances unimaginable in
earlier times.
 Parachute: Veranzio's 1595 parachute design titled "Flying Man"
 Mariner's astrolabe: The earliest recorded uses of the astrolabe for navigational
purposes.
 Dry dock and floating dock
 Newspaper is an offspring of the printing press from which the press derives its
name. The 16th century sees a rising demand for up-to-date information which
cannot be covered effectively by the circulating hand-written newssheets. For
"gaining time" from the slow copying process, Johann Carolus of Strassburg is the
first to publish his German-language Relation by using a printing press (1605).
 Air-gun: an air-gun equipped with a powerful spiral spring.

Alchemy- is the study of the transmutation of materials through obscure processes, It is


sometimes described as an early form of chemistry. One of the main aims of alchemists was to
find a method of creating gold from other substances. Medieval alchemists worked with two main
elements, sulphur and merrcury, Paracelsus was an alchemist and physician of the Renaissance.
Elbe Paracelsians added a third element, salt, to make a trinity of alchemical elements.

Astronomy- Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543). Founded the theory of Heliocentric


that the earth revolved around the sun. Sun is the center of solar system. His book De
revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), was finally
published in 1543. A comparison of his work with the Almagest shows that Copernicus was in
many ways a Renaissance scientist rather than a revolutionary.

Medicine- With the Renaissance came an increase in experimental investigation,


Principally in the field of dissection and body examination, thus advancing our knowledge of
human anatomy.

The development of modern neurology began in the 16th century with Andreas Vesalius
(1514-1564), who described the anatomy of the brain and other organs; In 1543, he published
one of the most famous publications in natural philosophy his anatomical book Defabrica (On the
Fabric of the Human Body). It was arguably the most important anatomical texts of the century,
at once criticizing the work of the ancients, principally Galen, offering new illustrations based on
first-hand observation and fresh dissections.

 Few effective drugs existed, beyond opium and quinine.


 William Harvey provided a refined and complete description of the circulatory system. The
most useful tomes in medicine, used both by students and expert physicians, were
materiae medicae and pharmacopoeiae.
 Otto Brunfels (1530-1536) published Portraits of Living Plants, a botanical work that
employed freshly drawn illustrations from living plants, undermining the practice of
copying drawings from existing accounts.
Reference:

Aldea, K.I., Caronan, H. P., Candido, M.B. (2018), Science, Technology, and Society (OBE
Ready). Philippines. Books ATbp. Publishing Corp.

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