NATS 1775 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Movable Type, Renaissance Technology, Making Money
4 Feb 2016
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Whether secular or religious, renaissance courts and city-states had expansive ambitions, and technical activities figured among their objects of patronage. The history of renaissance technology is told as a story of individual engineer such as da vinci and others. The history of renaissance politics and culture is related to the shifting fortunes of city-states and noble courts and individual. Leonardo da vinci and other his fellow engineers had surprising little to do with improving industry or making money when we think technology today. Renaissance courts commissioned them for numerous projects such as city- building, entertainment, and showing off dynastic display . Leonardo"s career as an independent engineer began as an offshoot of an assignment from lorenzo de" medici. Leonardo had several technological dreams that he designed and invented:: human-powered, powered wheel, crossbows, submarine, human-powered flight, expensive high technology military such as gunpowder weapons.
