Science and technology concepts and applications

Science and Technology

The Renaissance period has been one in which people were feeling the full hit of the scientific and technological development with the whole world being completely changed by this evolution. Numerous great inventors have lived during those times and in spite of the fact that their work had been controversial, they still caught the public eye with their remarkable inventions.

Surprisingly, people have change their concepts a lot subsequent to the Renaissance period, as they've witnessed the inventions of various devices meant to ease their life. Until that time, science had been closely tied to philosophy and most scientific experiments have had a philosophical basis. The scientists from the era believed that scientific experiments needed to become more frequent. Moreover, scientists felt that speculations, when concerning science and technology, should be a thing of the past.

Most people had been accepting the advance for the reason that they've had gained an extremely important power, most of them did not have until then: access to information thanks to what became one of the greatest inventions of all times: the Guttenberg movable type printing press. Until then, the masses were manipulated to believe that everything happened because of a divine intervention and mysticism had been involved in virtually every domain. Modern people, on the contrary, wanted to find logical explanations instead of imaginary ones. A considerable contribution to this change in attitude and mentalities had the works of the great Greek and Roman philosophers that have been revived during the period .

The dissemination of information and knowledge suddenly became available at all levels of society though the thousands of copies that were now made possible by Gutenberg's typing press in a unit of time thousands of times shorter than before.

There was another invention that contributed to making people's life easier, in a different domain that involved people's comfort and hygiene: the sewer. In spite of the fact that it had been used before in the Roman Empire, the sewer system had not been fully developed and moreover, people have abandoned the concept after the fall of Rome. Europeans invented a more complex sewer system and sewers spread across Europe's most important cities in a short time.

Mechanical clocks had been invented before the half of the second millennium, but, in the 16th century, they have been perfected by Galileo with the help of the pendulum. Clocks have become more advanced in time as people discovered ways of making the mechanism more precise and also of smaller proportions.

Europeans also became acquainted with the gunpowder in the Renaissance period and warfare had been taken to a whole new level. It is not clear whether Europeans have invented gunpowder alone or if they've been inspired for the concept from the Asians. As a result of this invention, knights had become out-dated as the new armed foot-soldiers became more numerous, replacing them.

The invention of eye-glasses earlier in the millennium led to the invention of the telescope somewhere between the late sixteenth century and the early seventeenth century. Galileo helped in popularizing the invention, and, with it, he discovered several impressive facts for the time.

One of the greatest inventors of the Renaissance was Leonardo da Vinci with his inventions becoming well-known at the time. Besides inventing a number of impressive devices, da Vinci described several mechanisms that were built several centuries after his death. He had been extremely gifted, as he had experience in numerous domains. He is recognized by some for having been one of the greatest painters ever to have lived.