The Baroque Era and the Art and Science.

 The Baroque era was a crazy time. We found out that the Earth isn't the center of the universe, that we have little blobs inside of us called cells, and most importantly, art.

The Baroque era was a strange time, to say the least, but it bore much fruit for the labor that was put in. We discovered many ways to make paintings and other forms of art much more interesting, we learned how to make flat surfaces appear as if they had special lighting, depth, and minute details that no other art had before. Many of the most famous paintings in the world were made in the Baroque period, "Girl with a Pearl Earring," "The Night Watch," and "The Crucifixion of St. Peter" are all famous Baroque paintings.

The Girl with the Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer.

We made music unlike anything ever before such as Fuge by none other than Sebastian Bach himself, Hallejuiah by Frideric Handel, and The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi. But the Baroque era not only brought new music and art to our ears but also new inventions such as the microscope and the telescope. The microscope is used to see microscopic things swimming around our bodies. We found bacteria, blood cells both red and white, and minerals. Microscopes revolutionized how we see and treat our bodies today. Although Galileo introduced the idea of telescopes, it was actually Thomas Harriot who first looked through a telescope and drew the moon from his new, amplified view. Galileo and Harriot both made major contributions to science with their research, the invention of the telescope led to humans developing massive observatories used to document findings from millions of lightyears away in the stars. When we used the telescope, we found what could be habitable planets far out in space, and we found water on distant planets, we made plenty of new discoveries about bodies in space we already knew about. Two little inventions shaped science as we know it, the start of a tube with some glass in it led to humans walking on the moon, and many modern medicine companies wouldn't exist if the microscope hadn't been used to look at human blood.

The Baroque era sure contributed a lot to science, but we don't acknowledge it enough, our lives would be very different from what they are now, certain brands wouldn't exist, inventions would look very different, and some inventions may never be made until a much later date. The Baroque era shaped history as we know it, and made Earth and its inhabitants what they are today. 

"Galileo and the Telescope." Library of Congress, Carl Sagan, www.loc.gov/collections/finding-our-place-in-the-cosmos-with-carl-sagan/articles-and-essays/modeling-the-cosmos/galileo-and-the-telescope Accessed 14 Oct. 2023.

"Girl with a Pearl Earring." Britannica, 18 May 2017, www.britannica.com/topic/Girl-with-a-Pearl-Earring-by-Vermeer Accessed 14 Oct. 2023.