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Renaissance (#2)

The Renaissance was a pivotal era that significantly advanced mathematics and science, with scholars developing essential symbols still in use today, like the square root (√) and number signs (+ and -). This period also saw engineers utilizing new mathematical concepts to strengthen architecture, and astronomers uncovering the Earth's orbit around the sun. Education evolved with a focus on humanities alongside religious studies. Innovations like papermaking and Gutenberg's printing press made literature more accessible, leading to the rise of writers like Cervantes and Shakespeare, who shaped the cultural landscape of their time.

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Renaissance (#2)

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  1. Renaissance (#2)

  2. Math & Science • Renaissance scientists thought mathematics could help them understand the universe • they created many of the symbols we use in math today: the symbols for the square root (√— ) and for positive (+) and negative (-) numbers • Engineers and architects used new mathematical formulas to design ways to strengthen buildings • Studied astronomy - scientists learned that the earth moves around the sun

  3. Changes in Education • Students continued their religious studies, but also studied the humanities, especially history • One scholar, Petrach, warned against forgetting about history: • O inglorious age! that scorns antiquity, its mother, to whom it owes every noble art … What can be said in defense of men of education who ought not to be ignorant of antiquity [ancient times] and yet are plunged in … darkness and delusion?

  4. Paper & Printing • Helping ideas travels…. • Papermaking spread from China to the Middle East to Europe • Paper was cheaper and easier to create than using animal skins

  5. Johann Gutenberg developed a printing press: used moveable type where letters were put into a frame, ink spread across the letters and then paper laid atop and pressed onto the letters • In 1456 Gutenberg printed the Bible in Latin & later in other languages; as it became more easily available people wanted to learn to read and increased the desire for education

  6. Important Authors • Miguel de Cervantes wrote Don Quixote which poked fun at the Middle Ages time period • William Shakespeare wrote sonnets, but is most famously known for his plays. • He wrote over 30 comedies, tragedies, and histories • Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear, Othello

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