the renaissance was when people started keeping track of time. locksmith peterhead life invented the pocket watch in fifteen ten it soon became a profit tool merchants and a fortune with it. and it is out seafarers to navigate the distant oceans. shortly before christopher columbus had arrived in the americas and the known world triple up inside. people began to understand our planets in new ways and an empire rose on which the sun never sets. this was all thanks to the new portable timepieces scholars could measure and calculate the paths of the heavenly bodies more accurately discovering the mechanisms of planetary motion and ultimately placing the sun at the heart of our solar system. the way to the stars was opened at least in the mind of the pockets. watch and the other inventions of the