Japan's Edo period and the European Renaissance were seperated by hundreds of years. But in spite of that, there was a cat in Edo Japan who fit the definition of "renaissance man": the scholar, inventor, and artist known as Hiraga Gennai.
A Dutch invention for measuring temperatures 
born from incredible amounts of work:
Un invento holandés
que medía la temperatura,
Uma invenção holandesa que mede temperaturas
que surgiu depois de muito trabalho: