Youre watching news coming up next doc film the renaissance factor part two theyll be more at the top of the hour thanks for joining us. Europe ill be going to. Put whats become of it. What will it look like tomorrow. Evening for a Better Future isnt enough. Requires work which is sufficient. You know actions twenty nineteen may twenty sixth on g. W. 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
sins. but this indulgence as it was called didn t come for free. as soon as a coin in the box does ring the song from purgatory spring these were the words of the dominican fry your hundred one of the most notorious sellers of indulgences he even sold indulgences for blasphemy and murder. in the autumn of fifteen eleven the twenty eight year old augustinian friar martin luther was in rome. he too was seeking indulgence he climbed the sacred stairs in front of the last run on his knees to obtain forgiveness for his sins and to free his deceased relatives from purgatory. since the time of emperor constantine the last room had been the official seat of the pope the last one palace is a sixteenth century renaissance building built by pope sixtus the. the renaissance pope s money spinner was the sale of indulgences. when we talk