Revolution and renaissance.

A History of the Ecological Sciences , Part 10 : Botany during the Italian Renaissance and Beginnings of the Scientific Revolution

Movements in Literature

Renaissance/ Early­Modern Period The Renaissance, also known as "Il Rinascimento" (in Italian), was an influential cultural movement which brought about a period of scientific revolution, religious reform and artistic transformation, at the dawn of modern European history. It marks the transitional period between the end of the Middle Ages and the start of the Modern Age. The Renaissance is usu...

THE ROLE OF ORGANIZATIONAL CREATIVE AREAS (OCA) IN DYNAMIC INNOVATION: FROM COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE OF INDIVIDUAL RATIONAL ECONOMICS TOWARDS DEVELOPMENT OF COLLECTIVE SUSTAINABILITY Genesis and Overview: The Organization as Mediator between Entrepreneurs and Innovations

This book represents the culmination of an international project to compile multi and inter-disciplinary research that most contributes to innovation. The book's unifying constructs are innovation and the organization. The organization mediates between entrepreneurs and innovations. This preface presents a brief overview of developments concerning the organization and innovation. Organizations ...

The Plant Protection Racket - Butterflies and Wheels

Before the Industrial Revolution, artists and artisans would strive to make a work as perfect as possible. They used the technologies of their time to make as fine a product as their skill and limited technology allowed. Given the long painstaking efforts involved in creation, such items were few in number and available to only a minuscule number of elites. They were the crowning achievement of...

The Tragedy of the Unexamined Cat: Why K–12 and University Education Are Still in the Dark Ages and How Citizen Science Allows for a Renaissance

At the end of the dark ages, anatomy was taught as though everything that could be known was known. Scholars learned about what had been discovered rather than how to make discoveries. This was true even though the body (and the rest of biology) was very poorly understood. The renaissance eventually brought a revolution in how scholars (and graduate students) were trained and worked. This revol...