Who invented the telescope?

Name any two original thinkers who are called forerunners of Renaissance.

Read the following excerpt and answer the question that follow:

"The period produced many other giants in science and great discoveries and inventions were made."

(Source: https://egyankosh.ac.in/bitstream/123456789/12890/1/Unit-7.pdf)

Which key inventions of the Renaissance era laid the foundation of modern science?

Read the following excerpt and answer the questions that follow:

"The Renaissance thinkers attacked scholasticism saying that it fed on itself, with its circular reasoning within a close system in which the basic premises bore no relation to reality. They asserted that knowledge could be gained by going out and studying mentally and manually the Book of Nature."

(Source: https://egyankosh.ac.in/bitstream/123456789/12890/1/Unit-7.pdf)

(a) Who were some original thinkers that influenced the Renaissance?

(b) How did these original thinkers contribute to the Renaissance?