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The Impact of Technology on Renaissance Society and Scientific Advancements

This article explores the transformative effects of technology during the Renaissance period, highlighting how advancements in shipbuilding, timekeeping, and printing spurred economic growth, urbanization, and a shift in societal values. The fall of Rome, the Black Plague, and the rise of individualism set the stage for scientific inquiry, leading to paradigm shifts in knowledge. Figures like Galileo and Leonardo da Vinci emerged, influencing fields such as astronomy, medicine, and engineering. The article delves into how these technological changes shaped a new era of education, job creation, and critical thought.

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The Impact of Technology on Renaissance Society and Scientific Advancements

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  1. Technology in the Renaissance By Mike, Daniel, Moosa, Alex, Cameron

  2. Historical Context • Religion supressed scientific thinking • Fall of Rome led to declined scientific knowledge • De-urbanization • Black Plague struck, left profound impact on population • Mindset of population began to change • Birth of medieval universities • Texts translated into Latin to be studied • Individualism and Humanism began to flourish

  3. Ships and Trade (Pre-Renaissance) • Ships pre-renaissance couldn’t sail very far from land • Trade mostly restricted to land, took much longer by sea • Ships not very advanced • Trade began to increase greatly due to Crusades • Money gained from Crusades reinvested into trade industry • Due to growth in trade and money earned, Italian states able to financially survive effects of Black Plague

  4. Ship Building • After Black Plague, trade began to rise again • People began to have more and more money • Society began focusing on scientific growth • Advances in science led to advances in ship technology • Ships were made: • Faster • Stronger • Larger (able to carry more)

  5. Ships and Trade(During Renaissance) • Advancements furthered trade significantly, allowed for trading with farther away places • Wool trade started • Due to large amounts of profit, Italian states allowed to grow and change even more • Cities began to be run by aristocratic merchants, growing trade industry further • Trade industry, because of ship building, funded the Renaissance

  6. Clocks and Time Keeping (pre-Renaissance) • Tools were crude and unreliable • Hour glasses • Sundials • Basic day breaks • Most accurate “water clocks” • measured in flow and out flow of water • Still inaccurate

  7. Clocks • Refined to be more accurate • At first just series of bells to tell the hours • Alert the towns people of hours • Work • Prayer • Used a system of weights • Clock towers wide spread in 15th century • Now used dial and face method

  8. Clocks • Galileo created pendulum 15th century (cut down on inaccuracy by 15 min) • Peter Henlein spring-driven clocks immerged 15th century(smaller lighter) • ChristiaanHygens created pendulum clock • Based ideas of Galileo’s ideas

  9. Printed Word • Used the Chinese method of wooden block printing until 1451 • Several causes for the creation of the press: • Rag paper • Block printing • Oil-based inks • The Black Plague

  10. Printed Word • Around middle of 1500s, Europe switched to more durable paper • Made paper much cheaper and easier to acquire • Changed life during Renaissance • Governments switched to print

  11. Printed Word • Wider literate reading public • More books of secular nature • Scientists shared results with each other • Church could no longer censor what was written

  12. Scientific Advancements • Many innovations happened during the such as astronomical • Galileo observed a supernova of 1604 • Galileo built his own telescope when the lens was invented in 1609 • Nicolaus Copernicus was the first to discover the earth revolved around the sun

  13. Scientific Advancements 2. Chemistry & Medical • Some believed in alchemy, being able to transmute items and others into gold • Paracelsus a well known for his attempts at alchemy but also known as the father of toxicology , also made great advancements in the field of technology • Antonio Benivieni, known for his work in autopsy and pathology

  14. Scientific Advancements 3. Mechanical • Leonardo Da Vinci made great strands in mechanical engineering • Known for the making and conceptualism of hydraulics, canal system, locks, bridges, weaponry

  15. How did Technology Impact Renaissance society? • Created more jobs • More skilled labour • Booming economy • Let people control their lives • Life become more scheduled • More people became educated • New ways of spreading ideas • Critical for urbanization • Medical advancments

  16. A Break from the Past • Unlike medieval times • Placed value on Greek texts • New age in economic developments • Urbanization to a larger scale • Led to Scientific Revolution

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