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Renaissance technology is the set of European artifacts and customs, spanning roughly the 14th through the 16th century. The era is marked by such profound technical advancements like the printing press, linear perspectivity, patent law, double shell domes or Bastion fortresses. Draw-books of the Renaissance artist-engineers such as Taccola and Leonardo da Vinci give a deep insight into the mechanical technology then known and applied. This article is about the European Renaissance of the 14th-17th centuries. ... The printing press is a mechanical device for printing many copies of a text on rectangular sheets of paper. ... A cube in two-point perspective. ... A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a government to an inventor or applicant for a limited amount of time (normally maximum 20 years from the filing date, depending on extension). ... The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church, or Duomo, of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Florence, noted for its distinctive dome. ... Olomouc bastion fortress in Czech Republic in 1757 Bourtange bastion fortress in Groningen in Netherland plan of bastion fortress (in Finnish) The bastion fortress was once a very modern type of fortress. ... Mariano di Jacopo detto Taccola (1382 - c. ... “Da Vinci” redirects here. ...

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Renaissance technologies

A list of some important Renaissance technologies including both innovations and improvements on existing techniques.


Mining and Metallurgy

Technology Date Comment
Blast furnace Enabling iron to be produced on a larger scale than previously.
Finery forge For converting pig iron (from the blast furnace) into bar iron (wrought iron)
Slitting mill Mechanising the production of iron rods for nailmaking.
Smeltmill More efficient for lead smelting than the bole hill.
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By type of technology: Blast furnace in Sestao, Spain. ... Iron tapped from the blast furnace is pig iron, and contains significant amounts of carbon and silicon. ... A wrought iron railing in Troy, New York. ... The Slitting Mill was a water-powered mill for slitting bars of iron into rods. ... A pile of nails. ... Smeltmills were water-powered mills used to smelt lead or other metals. ... A Bole hill (also spelt Bail hill) was a place where lead was formerly smelted in the open air. ... The wheel was invented circa 4000 BC, and has become one of the worlds most famous, and most useful technologies. ... The Neolithic Revolution is the term for the first agricultural revolution, describing the transition from nomadic hunting and gathering communities and bands, to agriculture and settlement, as first adopted by various independent prehistoric human societies, in numerous locations on most continents between 10-12 thousand years ago. ... Ancient Egyptian technology is a set of artifacts and customs that lasted for thousands of years. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The history of science and technology in China is both long and rich with science and technological contribution. ... Ancient Greek technology is a set of artifacts and customs, developed by ancient Greek and Hellenistic engineers who wrote in Greek, that lasted for more than one thousand years. ... The Pont du Gard in France is a Roman aqueduct built in ca. ... A significant number of inventions were produced in the Muslim world, many of them with direct implications for Fiqh related issues. ... The Islamic Golden Age from the 8th century to the 13th century witnessed a fundamental transformation in agriculture known as the Muslim Agricultural Revolution,[1] Arab Agricultural Revolution,[2] or Green Revolution. ... Medieval treadwheel crane Reading Saint Peter with eyeglasses (1466) During the 12th and 13th centuries, medieval Europe saw a radical change in the rate of new inventions, innovations in the ways of managing traditional means of production, and economic growth. ... The British Agricultural Revolution describes a period of agricultural development in Britain between the 16th century and the mid-19th century, which saw a massive increase in agricultural productivity and net output. ... A Watt steam engine, the steam engine that propelled the Industrial Revolution in Britain and the world. ...

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Technical drawings of artist-engineers

The revived scientific spirit of the age can perhaps be best exemplified by the voluminous corpus of technical drawings which the artist-engineers left behind, reflecting the wide variety of interests the Renaissance Homo universalis pursued. The establishment of the laws of linear perspectivity by Brunelleschi gave his successors like Taccola, Francesco di Giorgio Martini or Leonardo da Vinci a powerful instrument to depict mechanical devices for the first time in a realistic manner. The extant sketch books give modern historians of science invaluable insights into the standards of technology of the time. Renaissance engineers showed a strong proclivity to experimental study, drawing a most wide variety of technical devices, many of which appeared for the first time in history on paper. Categories: Renaissance | Stub ... Filippo Brunelleschi, 1377 - 1446, was the first great Florentine architect of the Italian Renaissance. ... Mariano di Jacopo detto Taccola (1382 - c. ... Francesco di Giorgio Martini (1395-1482) was an Italian painter of the Sienese School, who apprenticed with Vecchietta. ... “Da Vinci” redirects here. ...


However, these designs were not always intended to be put into practice, and often practical limitations impeded the application of the revolutionary designs. For example, da Vinci's ideas on the conical parachute or the winged flying machine were only applied much later. While earlier scholars showed a tendency to attribute inventions based on their first pictorial appearance to individual Renaissance engineers, modern scholarship is more prone to view the devices as products of a technical evolution which often went back to the Middle Ages. This article is about the device. ...

Technology Date Author Treatise Comment
Pile driver 1475 [1] Francesco di Giorgio Martini Trattato di Architectura Drawing of such a device whose principle must be according to the Brazilian historian of technology Ladislao Reti "considered original with Franceso".[2]
Centrifugal pump 1475 [1] Francesco di Giorgio Martini Trattato di Architectura Water or mud-lifting machine "that must be characterized as the prototype of the centrifugal pump".[1]

A pneumatic crane working as a pile driver. ... Francesco di Giorgio Martini (1395-1482) was an Italian painter of the Sienese School, who apprenticed with Vecchietta. ... Warman centrifugal pump in a CHPP application A Centrifugal Pump is a rotodynamic pump that uses a rotating impeller to increase the pressure of a fluid. ... Francesco di Giorgio Martini (1395-1482) was an Italian painter of the Sienese School, who apprenticed with Vecchietta. ...

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c Ladislao Reti, “Francesco di Giorgio Martini's Treatise on Engineering and Its Plagiarists”, Technology and Culture, Vol. 4, No. 3. (Summer, 1963), pp. 287-298 (290)
  2. ^ Ladislao Reti, “Francesco di Giorgio Martini's Treatise on Engineering and Its Plagiarists”, Technology and Culture, Vol. 4, No. 3. (Summer, 1963), pp. 287-298 (297f.)

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