renaissance engineering between the 14 th and 16 th centuries the black death – 1349 the age of...
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Renaissance Engineering
• Between the 14th and 16th Centuries
• The Black Death – 1349
• The Age of Exploration
• Gunpowder and Cannon
• The Scientific Revolution -- 1543
Condemnation of 1277
Renaissance Engineering Innovations Included:
• Segmented Arch and Elliptical Arched Stone Bridges
• Domes
• Truss Bridges
• Canals
The Importance of the Humanists
• Recovering, Restoring, Editing and Evaluating the Texts of the Ancients
• Aristotle
• Ptolemy
• Archimedes
• Vitruvius
Andrea Palladio
Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472)
Filippo Brunelleschi (1377 – April 15, 1446)
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
ABBAS IBN FIRNAS: 875 A.D.
Eilmer of Malmesbury
A Flying Machine. 1490
Study of the Constructionand Control of a Wing
1490
Drawing of a FlyingMachine with Operator
1500