New Discoveries

Question 1

Emergence of Engineering Sciences

Answer 1

David F. Channell

Question 2

what are some examples of new technologies?

Answer 2

printing press, gunpowder, and new navigational techniques

Question 3

what have some historians labelled this?

Answer 3

Scientific revolution

Question 4

What type of people were emerging?

Answer 4

Renaissance artist-engineers such as Da Vinci, Alberti, Martini, who bridged the gap that divided mechanical arts from natural philosophy

Question 5

What acted as a new tool in which they could think about technical devices to share information?

Answer 5

fixed point perspective

Question 6

What was Da Vinci able to discover?

Answer 6

the concept of mechanism, saw machines and structures could be reduced to universal components, opened the possibility of systematic stiff of machines and structures

Question 7

What was the importance of New Translations?

Answer 7

Works of Greeks such as Plato, Euclid and Archimedes available to read

Question 8

What are some significant changes that turned natural philosophy to something more in line with what we call science today?

Answer 8

Padua: medical faculty more dominant than divine, Aristotle: more attention to his logical works than divine, interest in observation and experimentation, Translations: new interest in developing mathematical theories of natural philosophy, Hermetic Approach: view that a combination of theoretical and experimental knowledge could be used to manipulate the forces of nature for some practical purposes

Question 9

What did John Dee argue?

Answer 9

natural philosophy and mechanical arts (mechanics, hydraulics, navigation) were all governed by geometry, which he saw as a form of mathematical magic

Question 10

How did religious reformation influence this Scientific Revolution?

Answer 10

caused a more practical view of natural philosophy