NATS 1760 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Johannes Gutenberg, Ballista, Gemcutter
30 Jan 2016
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Technologies of the court / printing and patronage. How people move from their status, what kind of resources they use. Galileo, mathematician in pisa , low social status. Leonardo dominates in his interests, and has vast abilities. How leo (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) seen as renaissance man" since he masters subjects and doesn"t just know a little about them. He dominates the areas he is interested in (cid:1) (cid:1) over comes status of his own birth through patronage. (cid:1) (cid:1) philosopher from mathematician. (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Leonardo da vinci (1452-1519): born in tuscan village called vinci, (cid:1) in 1452. He is the illegitimate son of a local lactery ( something like a lawyer form that time) and a farm girl. That status will stand against him his whole life, it"s a stigma and questions his social status, most of his life he fights against that stigma. Da vinci"s life from florence, milan, mantua, venice and.
