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Originally Posted by Clodfobble
The thing about innovation that always fascinated me was that with almost every major invention in history, several people independently arrived at the same inspiration and were working on similar prototypes right around the same time, without ever communicating with one another. It's like mankind was "ready" for that new direction.
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The Renaissance was a period when suddenly artists were drawing with a more realistic perspective of the world. Did this just happen independently in the art world? Actually, artist first had some new tools. They were using a concave lens to reflect the image on their canvas, and then sketching that image into the canvas. One reason why breakthroughs appear to happen simultaneously in different locations is the sudden availability of new tools. So were those Renaissance artists really innovative?