I have been a faculty member at four universities – two in leadership positions and two in one-year visiting positions. Nevertheless, academia is a bit of enigma to me, perhaps because of my thirteen-year “leave of absence” to found and lead two software companies. In terms of content, in my case science and engineering, universities […]
The Renaissance is typically associated with great works of art and architecture. As noted in Part 2, Filippo Brunelleschi was an early Renaissance artist and architect. His dome of the Florence Cathedral was a major engineering feat. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a scientist, engineer, painter, and sculptor, with works ranging from The Last Supper […]
A confluence of forces also led to the Renaissance, the highly creative period between the Middle Ages and the Modern Era that began in Tuscany in Florence in the 14th Century. The origins of the Renaissance are often traced to the writings of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) and Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), and the art of Filippo […]
