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Technology & Culture
Terms from "Leonardo: Technlogy & Culture From the renaissance to the present"
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Undergraduate 2
09/20/2012
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“The Empty Quarter”
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The year at 1000
Europe
“The Empty Quarter”
22 million
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Geometrical Perspective
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Geometrical perspective (linear perspective)
Leon Battista Alberti
Albrecht Durer
Form of drawing where a point on the paper is chosen and you draw towards that line. Leonardo was taught to use this method.
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Index of Prohibited Books
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Counter Reformation
Index of Prohibited Books
“The Republic of Letters”
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Joint Stock Company
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Financial Innovations
Joint-Stock Company
Dutch East India Company
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New Netherlands
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1602 - United East India Company
Cape of Good Hope, Java, Jakarta.
1624 – United West India Company
Curacao, Suriname, New Netherlands.
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Industrialization
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James Watts
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Barclay’s London Stout
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Chartism
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Socialism
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Karl Marx
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The Scramble for Africa
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First Opium War
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Marquis of Dalhousie
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Henry Bessemer
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The Chemist’s War
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The War of Currents
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John Lubbers
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Henry Ford
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Model T
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Welfare Capitalism
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Androgyny
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Determinism
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Instrumentalism
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Melvin Kranzberg
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Manhattan Project
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Los Alamos
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Dome of Florence Cathedral
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Vicni, Tuscany,
he commission for this bronze ball [atop the lantern] went to the sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio, in whose workshop there was at this time a young apprentice named Leonardo da Vinci. Fascinated by Filippo's [Brunelleschi's] machines, which Verrocchio used to hoist the ball, Leonardo made a series of sketches of them and, as a result, is often given credit for their invention.
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Ludovocio Sforza
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Leonardo's Boss, Commissioned him to paint "the last supper"

Milan, Italy
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The Eighty Years War
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Netherlands 1524-1609
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Spinning Wheel
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The Great Game
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Pacific Railroad Act 1862
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Coal Tar
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Edison General Electric
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Fredrick Winslow Taylor
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The Black Death
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Fluytschip
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The Dutch Golden Age
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The Commons
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Lloyds of London
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The Suez Canal
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Open Hearth Process
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Thomas A Edison
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George Westinghouse
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Fordism
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Consumerism
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Leo Marx
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The Physicist’s War
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Hiroshima
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Nagasaki
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