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had fallen into decay with the collapse of the Roman Empire and only the Tuscan artists,
beginning with Cimabue (1240-1301) and Giotto (1267-1337) began to reverse this
decline in the arts. According to Vasari, antique art was central to the rebirth of Italian art.
During the 12th century in Europe, there was a radical change in the rate of new inventions
and innovations in the ways of managing traditional means of production and economic
growth. In less than a century, there were more inventions developed and applied usefully
than in the previous thousand years of human history all over the globe. The period saw
major technological advances, including the adoption or invention of printing, gunpowder,
spectacles, a better clock, the astrolabe, and greatly improved ships. The latter two
advances made possible the dawn of the Age of Exploration.
Alfred Crosby described some of this technological revolution in The Measure of
Reality : Quantification in Western Europe, 1250-1600 and other major historians of
technology have also noted it.
• The earliest written record of a windmill is from Yorkshire, England, dated 1185.
• Paper manufacture began in Italy around 1270.
• The spinning wheel was brought to Europe (probably from India) in the 13th century.
• The magnetic compass aided navigation, first reaching Europe some time in the late
12th century.
• Eyeglasses were invented in Italy in the late 1280s.
• The astrolabe returned to Europe via Islamic Spain.
• Leonardo of Pisa introduces Hindu-Arabic numerals to Europe with his book Liber
Abaci in 1202.
• The West's oldest known depiction of a stern-mounted rudder can be found on
church carvings dating to around 1180."
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"... explosions that were tested and used in the past two years on Earth have the
potential to destroy all of life..."
"A doomsday device is a hypothetical construction — usually a weapon — which could
destroy all life on the Earth, or destroy the Earth itself (bringing "doomsday", a term used for
the end of planet Earth).
Doomsday devices have been present in literature and art especially in the 20th century,
when advances in science and technology allowed humans to imagine a definite and
plausible way of actively destroying the world or all life on it (or at least human life). Many
classics in the genre of science fiction take up the theme in this respect, especially The
Purple Cloud (1901) by M. P. Shiel in which the accidental release of a gas kills all people on
the planet.
After the advent of nuclear weapons, especially hydrogen bombs, they have usually been
the dominant components of fictional doomsday devices. RAND strategist Herman Kahn
proposed a "Doomsday Machine" in the 1950s which would consist of a computer linked to a
stockpile of hydrogen bombs, programmed to detonate them all and bathe the planet in
nuclear fallout at the signal of an impending nuclear attack from another nation. Such a
scheme, fictional as it was, epitomized for many the extremes of the suicidal logic behind the
strategy of mutually assured destruction, and it was famously parodied in the Stanley
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