As people groups in both Europe and Asia became proficient in shipbuilding and navigation they started to explore. Slowly this exploration lead to new worlds, new civilizations, new flora and fauna, new animals. This spirit of exploration lead to centuries of inquiry into the unknown. To organize and make sense of these new ideas scientific thought was born. How do the world and the worlds in the heavens work? How do the winds blow? Are we are or are we not the center of the universe?
To answer these questions you need a new language a language not based on myth, superstition, or even human intuition. What you need is Math and measurement tools that can expose how gravity actually works not how you think it works. Late Renaissance mathematicians like Copernicus used math to prove that the earth was round years before explorers proved it true by actually sailing around it. The age of discovery needed was an age of actually exploring new world but also exploring new ways of describing the universe and the world we live in. There is a direct link to the age of discovery and our contemporary culture. We are direct descendants of this inquiry and exploration. Our modern world, its government, its civic life, and its education is built on its principals.
Cultural rebirth though intellectual inquiry
1350-1500Orderly government and social stability
1368-1644500 years of spirit objects and power plays
1390-1891How Humanism beats down Feudalism with the printing press
1420-1650Sculpting divine history
1440-1897Religion and the laws of perspective.
1492-1600Power, sophistication, luxury and might.
1500-1800Tension, distortion and ice-cold style
1520-1600The drama of deep color and shadow
1600-1725Art, culture, and NO OUTSIDERS
1603-1868Benevolent emperors and the height of literature and art
1644-1912Allegory, craft, and the unrelenting dictatorship of the Academy
1661-1900Dare to Know
1685-1815The best truth is secret truth
1690-1947Opulent, playful embrace of the ornate — 18th century swag.
1715-1774Classical imagery, democratic ideals, and the bloody hands of change.
1760-1830