SAN PEDRO COLLEGE – MAIN CAMPUS

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY
LECTURER: MRS. NICEY TUBERA

● Italy - 1300s (Center of Renaissance)

OUTLINE
● Europe 1500 and 1600 (And spreads out to
WEEK 7 Europe)
I. THE ADVANCE OF SCIENCE AND
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT
TECHNOLOGY DURING RENAISSANCE
II. RENAISSANCE
III. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY A. MICHAELANGELO
DEVELOPMENT
A. MICHAELANGELO
B. PRINTING PRESS
C. MINING AND METALLURGY
D. FIREARMS AND NAUTICAL
COMPASS
E. PARACHUTE
F. MARINER’S ASTROLABE
G. DRY FLOATING DOCK
H. NEWSPAPER
I. AIR-GUN
J. ALCHEMY
● Sculptor
K. ASTRONOMY
L. MEDICINE ● Painter
● Poet
● Engineer
THE ADVANCE OF SCIENCE AND ● Architect
TECHNOLOGY DURING RENAISSANCE
(AD 1300 - AD 1550 IN THE WESTERN WORLD) SISTINE CHAPEL MURAL

RENAISSANCE

• One of the works of Michaelangelo which is a

mural in the Sistine Chapel that can be seen in
● “Golden Age” the dome of the Basilica in Rome
● Time of creativity and change in Europe.
● Rebirth (French) of cultural and intellectual
pursuits after the stagnation of the Middle East.
● Achievements in art, literature, and science
● New Concept were introduced

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BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY
LECTURER: MRS. NICEY TUBERA

DAVID

● Johann Gutenberg
● 1400s - movable type in Europe
• He was able to make a very beautiful sculpture or ● Bible was already printed and compiled in every
statue of King David. King David is present in the language. Many books and newpapers were
Bible in the Book of Kings. The righteous, and published
handsome king ● Higher literacy rate
• Aside from Michaelangelo being the painter ● Spread ideas
during the Renaissance Period, there was also
Leonardo Da Vince who painted Mona Lisa and C. MINING AND METALLURGY
the Last Supper

B. PRINTING PRESS

• There were great innovations in the field of

mining and metallurgy that includes and
equipments and weaponse

D. FIREARMS AND NAUTICAL COMPASS

● The most important technological innovation of
that time
● China – 1300 (originated) made the printing
press however it was still considered to be
mamual

● To communicate

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BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY
LECTURER: MRS. NICEY TUBERA

● Exercise power
G. DRY AND FLOATING DOCK
● Travel

E. PARACHUTE

• Used for the repair of the ships and maintenance

H. NEWSPAPER
● “Flying Man”
● Veranzio’s 1595 parachute design. The design
was done Leonardo Da Vinci wherein he was
the one who sketched, but the one who created
was Veranzio. It made the starting point of
helicopters and airplanes

F. MARINER’S ASTROLABE

● Offspring of the printing press

● 16th Century- demand for up-to-date information
● Newspapers were already available due to the
presence of Johann Carulos of Strassburg

I. AIR-GUN

● The earliest record uses for navigational

purposes

● Equipped with powerful spiral spring

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BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY
LECTURER: MRS. NICEY TUBERA

J. ALCHEMY L. MEDICINE

● Study of the transmutation of materials through ● Increase in experimental investigation:

obscure process - Dissection
● Earliest form of chemistry - Body examination
● Main aims: find a method of creating gold from - Human anatomy
other substances ● Few effective drugs existed beyond opium and
● Two main elements: Sulphur and Mercury quinine
● Paracelsus
● Salt - added by Paracelsians
● Trinity of alchemical elements

K. ASTRONOMY

● Nicolaus Copernicus - scientist
● He founded the theory of Heliocentric
● Sun - center of the universe
● De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On
the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres) - book
(1543)
● MODERN NEUROLOGY
- Andreas Vesalius
- described human anatomy of the brain
and other organs
- wrote a book on anatomy that’s why he
was regarded as the Father of Anatomy
● De Fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body)
- Most important texts of the century
- Criticizes the work of the ancient Galen

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BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY
LECTURER: MRS. NICEY TUBERA

● William Harvey
○ He refined and complete the description of
the circulatory system. The functions of the
heart and blood, and how it circulates
○ Regarded as the Father of Physiology
○ Materiae Medicae and Pharmacopoeiae
- most useful by students and
professionals.

● Otto Brunfels
○ Father of Botany
○ First Person who made Portraits of
Pictures Living Plants
■ a botanical work that employed freshly
drawn illusion from living plants
■ he was able to classify all the plants and
published it in a book classifying their
respective medicinal benefits.