VIDEO SUMMARY
Point of View – Burke
I. Navigation
A. Electronic
B. Ancient (500 years ago)
1. Compass
2. Chart
C. Manuel Chrysolorus sailed
coastwise from Constantinople to
D. Failed to enlist the Pope's aid against the Turks.
E. Taught the Greek and Roman classics to wealthy in
II. Florence
A. Crossroads of
1. Traders
2. Wool industry
3. Banking (Medici)
4. Invented double entry
booking.
B. Renaissance
C. The Atlas of Ptolemy
D. Ancient manuscripts concerning Ethics, Poetry, etc.
(Humanist
movement). Get your reward here on earth!
III. Rome
A. Pope agreed to help the Greeks (1417) in return for
recognition.
B. Physical neglect and decay of Roman buildings.
C. Ruins studied, copied, and brought to
IV. Padua
A. The M.I.T. of
B. The Optics of AlHazen
C. Light Theory – Rays
D. Paolo Toscanelli –
Math/Physicist and student of A1Hazen
V. Florence
A. Paolo Tuscanelli and Fillipo Brunelleschi work on the
Dome.
B. Use of grids and optical theory in Ptolemy's map.
C. Grid system to depict Baptistry
(1425).
VI. Art Aside
A. Size in medieval painting.
B. Medieval Art values.
VII. Back To
A. The development of
perspective.
B. Leonne
Battista Alberti
1. "On
Painting"
2. The use of grids in
painting.
3. Horizon line,
vanishing point.
VIII. The Renaissance Man
A. Duke Frederico of Urbino.
B. Courtyard and palace in
3:2:1 ratios.
C. Roman columns and
straight lines.
D. Paintings.
E. Library and a Study
decorated with Marquetry.
F. One eyed and a pet
Giraffe.
G. Man is the Measure of
All.
H. The Iron Hand in the
Velvet Glove.
IX.
A. Geometric church
construction
X. Palma Nova (near
A. Geometric military city
construction.
B. The whole city is a set
of control coordinates.
XI. Cape St. Vincent
A. Established by Prince
Henry the Navigator.
B. Explored entire coast of
XII. Florence (aside)
A. Toscanelli
and Portuguese Prince Pedro.
B. Portolan Charts and Ptolemy's Atlas using perspective
Geometry.
XIII. Portugal
A. Portuguese sail around
B. Quadrant/North Star
problem.
C. Grid on Ptolemy's map,
Information from Conti and others gave
Toscanelli the
idea of sailing west to go east!
D. Sent map and letter to Colombus and the rest is history.
XIV. Spain
A. Back at naval base at
B. The world is grided and measured.