Renaissance Inventors

Constantinople was the capital of Rome and held lots of wealth and knowledge. When it was besieged and taken over they took all the scriptures, notes, and drawings to Italy for example Plato’s and Aristotle’s discoveries were all within this transfer of knowledge. In the Renaissance, people would read these scriptures and see the notes and develop or disprove what the people of the past found out like Newton and Leibniz. Renaissance engineering was developed through mathematics and science which created a burst in inventions.
The first really big breakthrough in the Renaissance was their mathematics. The mathematics before the Renaissance was only basic algebra and basic calculus that people like Plato and Epicurus used until Isaac Newton

A few great inventors are Leonardo da Vinci, Giuliano da Sangallo, and Galileo these three were some of the greatest inventors in the renaissance. Da Vinci, Sangallo, and Galileo all invented and designed many things but one thing they had in common was that they were all engineers and they designed and built some really mind-boggling things. Da Vinci was a great inventor and some of the mechanisms he drew out are the basis of some modern devices today like the helicopter and the flying machine which was an early design of a plane. Some of the most amazing inventions that Da Vinci thought and actually created are the flying machine, helicopter, and the self propelled cart. All of these inventions are end products of mathematics and science, for example the flying machine, for it to work for even a little amount of time Da Vinci had to calculate velocity, size, and wind to get it to work. When he was working on the flying machine he said “The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang” (Da Vinci Flying Machine) this means whoever flies first will be spoken of forever in his words. The helicopter needed math and science to find out the output of force for it to push down to fly, the most interesting of his greatest inventions, the propelled car. The self propelled car used a spring and had steering and breaks this was the first idea of a car. The math and science within this mechanism was difficult, it had implemented calculus to find out how to have the spring turning at all times. Galileo also had many great inventions that helped mold ideas in the future. The inventions he had were his pump, his telescope, and his thermometer. These inventions were more science based but still also used math, his pump used levers and made