CGS SS 101 Lecture 16: 11.19.14
6 Apr 2016
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Mathematics: increased because of military campaigns. Wars for the cross/crusade: averroes and pythagoras. Scientific inquiry: curiosity of earth, hypothesis, and experimentation. Philosophical debate: plato (rationalism and theory) and aristotle (practice, complex world we see around us. The ultimate renaissance man: leonardo da vinci (1452-1519) Sculpture, painter, architect, anatomy, philosophy, cryptographer, poet, engineer, inventor, and more. How had classical learning and culture died in europe: the fall of rome. Collapsed trade across europe because loss of authority. The augustinian worldview: predictable result of man"s sinful nature. Islamic world preserved far more civilization than rest of europe: had trade, wealth. Reestablishment of european trade roots with middle east and western africa. The great disruption of the 14th century: the black death . Michelangelo, the creation of adam sistine chapel ceiling, 1508. Movable type spawns an information revolution in europe. Spawned information revelation (comparable to explosion of internet) Culture of renaissance spreads to northern europe.
