Connections+to+Our+Time

Just as the people of the Renaissance were so excited about learning new things, we are as well. Their optimum desire before the Renaissance was to get to heaven, and that was all they thought about. When the Renaissance started, the people re- kindled their ancestors' love of learning, and put that into motion to create the printing press, and new techniques in art, such as perception. That age of discovery has continued through today. Over the last hundred years, we have put into motion the New Renaissance, full of advancements in technology. Back then, they didn't have as many technological advancements as we have today, because their advancements were focused on art, literature, science, and political survival. Our time is a mirror of their time, yet we have a specific genre that many of our advancements fall under, where as theirs were spread across the chart. Their age of discovery was long ago, and we continue to use their advancements: diplomacy, perception, and anatomical advancements, such as Andreas Vesalius' charts.