The Age of Enlightenment - invention of printing press, microscope and scientific method

The Renaissance period saw the invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg, the development of early microscopes, and the foundation of the modern scientific method. These advancements allowed medical knowledge to be printed, shared, and tested more systematically than in the Middle Ages. Although the prompt mentions the 'Age of Enlightenment', the listed inventions are most closely tied to the Renaissance among the choices.