Renaissance Engineering

• Between the 14th and 16th Centuries

• The Black Death – 1349

• The Age of Exploration

• Gunpowder and Cannon

• The Scientific Revolution -- 1543

Condemnation of 1277

Renaissance Engineering Innovations Included:

• Segmented Arch and Elliptical Arched Stone Bridges

• Domes

• Truss Bridges

• Canals

The Importance of the Humanists

• Recovering, Restoring, Editing and Evaluating the Texts of the Ancients

• Aristotle

• Ptolemy

• Archimedes

• Vitruvius

Andrea Palladio

Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472)

Filippo Brunelleschi (1377 – April 15, 1446)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

ABBAS IBN FIRNAS: 875 A.D.

Eilmer of Malmesbury

A Flying Machine. 1490

Study of the Constructionand Control of a Wing

1490

Drawing of a FlyingMachine with Operator

1500