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Time Magazine: Man of the Millennium

Brett Evill b.evill at spamblocker.tyndale.apana.org.au
Tue Sep 29 10:47:49 EST 1998


In article <6uqou7$9q0$1 at news5.ispnews.com>, joecosby at tihjeb.seatac.net
(Joe Cosby) wrote:

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>On 29 Sep 1998 08:12:39 GMT, Brett Evill wrote about Re: Time Magazine:
Man of the Millennium:
>> In article <6uopa7$rc$1 at quine.mathcs.duq.edu>, juola at mathcs.duq.edu
>> (Patrick Juola) wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> >He also didn't *DO* anything with them.  I can't think of a single
>> >one of the fields you mention in which there are any substantial
>> >contributions made by Da Vinci, with the exception of painting, in
>> >which he produced (at least) two acknowledged masterpieces.
>> >Geometry?  I must have missed "Da Vinci's Theorem" when I took the
>> >class.  I similarly missed the "Da Vinci" school of architecture 
>> >(unlike, for example, Gropius).
>> 
>> Well, there was his sculpture. And he did most of his work in military
>> engineering. And he invented the wheel-lock mechanism for firearms. And I
>> have been told that he invented scissors.
>> 
>
>Something I read recently left me with the impression that he
>pioneered human dissection, which would influence medicine,
>autopsy.

The ancient Greeks were dissecting people as part of anatomical studies,
at least as early as the first century AD.

>Although you have to admit, the invention of scissors doesn't
>seem like a huge influence on civilization...and while there
>are some intriguing military engineering ideas in his notebooks,
>I don't think any of them were adopted.

Leonardo da Vinci was a very active professional military engineer.

-- 
Brett Evill

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