15th century Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Inventions, discoveries, introductions== {{see also|Science and inventions of Leonardo da Vinci}}{{See also|Timeline of historic inventions#15th century}} * [[Renaissance]] affects [[philosophy]], [[History of Science and Technology|science]] and [[art]]. * Rise of [[Modern English]] language from [[Middle English]]. * Introduction of the [[noon bell]] in the [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] world. * Public [[History of banking|banks]]. * [[Yongle Encyclopedia]]βover 22,000 volumes. * [[Hangul]] alphabet in [[Korea]]. * [[Scotch whisky]]. * [[Psychiatric hospital]]s{{clarify|date=June 2015}}. * Development of the [[woodcut]] for printing between [[1400]]β[[1450]]. * [[Movable type]] first used by King [[Taejong of Joseon]]β[[1403]]. (Movable type, which allowed individual characters to be arranged to form words, was invented in China by [[Bi Sheng]] between 1041 and 1048.) * Although pioneered earlier in Korea and by the Chinese official [[Wang Zhen (official)|Wang Zhen]] (with [[tin]]), [[bronze]] metal [[movable type]] [[printing]] is created in China by [[Hua Sui]] in [[1490]]. * [[Johannes Gutenberg]] advances the [[printing press]] in Europe ({{circa|lk=no|[[1455]]}}) * [[Linear perspective]] drawing perfected by [[Filippo Brunelleschi]] [[1410]]β[[1415]] * Invention of the [[harpsichord]] {{circa|lk=no|[[1450]]}} * Arrival of [[Christopher Columbus]] to the [[Americas]] in [[1492]]. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page