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Time Magazine: Man of the Millennium

Joe Cosby joecosby at tihjeb.seatac.net
Tue Sep 29 08:56:23 EST 1998


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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.

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.
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Joe Cosby

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"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
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