NATS 1775 Lecture 4: Lecture_4_
5 Jan 2016
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Technology in the renaissance and early modern period: science and technology in the renaissance. In greece natural philosophy was seen as superior, tech inferior. Mediviel attempts to raise technology importance and try to combine it with natural science and religion. >2 changing relationship between s+t: the idea of natural science used be used only for purposes of learning is changing, and was about time it is put to use the rising of engineers raised the status of technical art. Engineers worked close with the royals and were given money by royals courts and sponsored their work. These people were also given status in society: the three major reason why since and tech will grow closer: The increasing number of instruments> early on aristotle (medieval times) frowned upon science, and that ppl should experience with science it"s against nature. But during renaissance there was encouragement of experimenting. As people become into experimenting, tools were needed to perform these experiments.
