Feb 16 History of GD response

In class today, we reviewed many questions we had over the reading, as well as discuss the Renaissance and the people that aided in it. During this discussion, we looked at Martin Luther and Durer, as well as three important men who contributed to the Renaissance: Tory, Manutius and Ratdolt. Each of these men were considered their own “renaissance man”. Ratdolt, the first to complete a title page, figured out the solar and lunar eclipses. He created illustrations of these eclipses and other geometric studies to help aid in the understanding. Manutius, assisting in the creation of Italics, generated the pocket book and became famous for creating his own logo. Owning his own printing press be directed and created the book “Poliphilus’ Dream”. Tory, learning 12 different fields of study introduced the apostrophe, ascents, and cedillas to lettering systems. He designed thirteen different alphabets and wrote a book on correcting letter forms and geometric shapes that Durer made errors on.

One important thing studied in class today had to do with the specific people each group had to look up and find information on. When taking a closer look at a specific person, you begin to see how much they actually accomplished as well as the importance of their accomplishments. Tory accomplished so much throughout his life and completed things such as designing different alphabets, teaching at the University of Paris, and writing three books on perfecting speech and alphabets. He made so many advances in France during the Renaissance and his accomplishments will be remembered.

One question that I pose is how long did it take for the Renaissance, beginning in Italy, spread across the whole world? Did it create a domino effect?