The invention of the printing press had an huge impact and so had the discovery of the America’s by Columbus. The Renaissance was characterized by immense optimism. The sky seemed the limit. Da Vinci was in this sense very much a representative of his time. The theory of simple machines finally reached a satisfactory form. Scientists dreamt of universal problem solving methods.
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Koetsier, T. (2019). The renaissance and the scientific revolution. In History of Mechanism and Machine Science (Vol. 36, pp. 145–175). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96547-5_7
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