SftPublic 3/06/12 Renaissance Roots of Modern Science

Toby Lester, author of "The Fourth Part of the World" and "Da Vinci's Ghost" discusses the gradual emergence of a scientific worldview during the Italian Renaissance. Both of these books present the story an object that reflects a new idea emerging from an old one: the Waldseemuller Map (the first world map to include the bewildering America), and Da Vinci's iconic Vitruvian Man drawing (combining ancient and modern concepts). Toby Lester gives a wonderful sense of the Renaissance world in this conversation.