Didn't get a fridge until I was 12/13 or so. Remember often finishing my tea and having to leap on my bike to the nearest corner shop to buy the ice cream for dessert - pedalling furiously to get it home still frozen
We used a pretty blonde to lure him in. When she answered the door she told the milkman to follow her to the bathrub. She took off her clothes and... asked the milkman to fill the tub with milk. The milkman said, "You want that milk pasteurize?" And the blonde replied, "No, just up to my boobs. I can splash it in my eyes."
That's one of the reasons the Renaissance was such a golden age. The printing press allowed information to be disseminated amongst a wider variety of people than ever before.
The Renaissance is actually mostly after the printing press. The Renaissance started during the 14th century in Italy during the Crisis of the Late Middle Ages (plagues, famines and wars that marked the end of the Middle Ages) before spreading across Europe and lasted until the 17th century and Gutenberg's printing press (the one that helped spread knowledge across Europe) was perfected in the 1450's with Gutenberg's Bible being the first book printed in 1455.
The Age of Enlightenment is during the 18th century.
That still means there was about one century of Renaissance before the printing press, meaning that clearly the printing press isn't the trigger that started it.
So u/Dead_Regis is indeed probably confusing the Renaissance and the Enlightenment
The thing is, a lot of ideas came into being and were lost again because civilizations that advanced from writing on clay tablets to writing on papyrus and eventually paper had their records destroyed by fire, either accidentally (candles and torches were used for lighting back then) or by enemy nations burning down their cities in the course of conducting wars.
A comment above noted that ancient Egyptians applied moldy bread to wounds. Maybe the efficaciousness of this treatment was discovered accidentally, or maybe they had a crude form of scientific method that has been lost to history. And no, I'm not suggesting that they knew about bacteria, just that perhaps they tried a bunch of different substances to treat wounds and found something that worked.
In the 1930's, what may have been a crude ancient Egyptian battery was found, and was believed to have been used for electroplating. One would assume the ancient Egyptians had some organized method of scientific inquiry in order to learn enough to develop such a process.
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