By Fritjof Capra
ISBN-10: 1609949919
ISBN-13: 9781609949914
Leonardo da Vinci was once an excellent artist, scientist, engineer, mathematician, architect, inventor, author, or even musician—the archetypal Renaissance guy. yet he used to be additionally, Fritjof Capra argues, a profoundly glossy guy. not just did Leonardo invent the empirical medical strategy over a century prior to Galileo and Francis Bacon, yet Capra's decade-long research of Leonardo's fabled notebooks show him as a structures philosopher centuries sooner than the time period was once coined. He believed the most important to really figuring out the area was once in perceiving the connections among phenomena and the bigger styles shaped via these relationships. this can be exactly the type of holistic strategy the complicated difficulties we are facing this day call for. Capra describes seven defining features of Leonardo da Vinci's genius and encompasses a checklist of over 40 discoveries Leonardo made that weren't rediscovered until eventually centuries later. Leonardo pioneered whole fields—fluid dynamics, theoretical botany, aerodynamics, embryology. Capra's evaluate of Leonardo's idea follows the organizational scheme Leonardo himself meant to exploit if he ever released his notebooks. So in a feeling, this is often Leonardo's technology as he himself could have provided it. Leonardo da Vinci observed the realm as a dynamic, built-in entire, so he regularly utilized ideas from one quarter to light up difficulties in one other. for instance, his stories of the circulate of water educated his rules approximately how landscapes are formed, how sap rises in vegetation, how air strikes over a bird's wing, and the way blood flows within the human physique. His observations of nature greater his artwork, his drawings have been critical to his clinical reports, and he introduced artwork and technology jointly in his terribly attractive and chic mechanical and architectural designs. evidently, we can't all be geniuses at the scale of Leonardo da Vinci. yet via exploring the brain of the preeminent Renaissance genius, we will achieve profound insights into how top to deal with the demanding situations of the twenty first century.
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Daß er alle Arten von Eisen, wenn es unter der Erde verborgen ist, »sehen« könnte und zudem auch verspüren, ob es rein oder gar vergiftet ist. Solche seltene Kunst aber sei sehr nützlich und dürfe nicht im Gefangenenhaus verkommen. - Weil aber der B. I. durch vorheriges Lügen jegliches Vertrauen schon verspielt hatte, mochte ihm dieses niemand mehr glauben, vielmehr wurde es als eine abermalige Lüge angesehen. Zum sechsten wurde der B. I. zu guter Letzt noch frech und trotzig. Er sagte, alles Eisen gehöre in Wahrheit dem Gottelvolk und nicht den Vätern allein.
Anstatt sich aber, wie angegeben, mit den jungen Männern zu befassen, geschah dieses vielmehr mit den Frauen und Mädchen. Aber es war fürwahr kein Befassen allein, sondern vielmehr Gewalt und Notzucht, so als wenn die fremden Horden von anno 2610 im Lande wären. Und dies, nachdem man die Garden zu einem Tanzfest in der Dreschhalle eingeladen hatte. Solche Tanzfeste sind in der Zeit des frühen Jahres - wie Ihr wißt - überall im Brauche, und es gibt dabei allerlei Verkleidung und Mummenschanz. Wenn auch durch solches Treiben die Geschlechtslust angefacht werden kann, so ist doch niemals bekannt geworden, daß die Weiber eines Dorfes in einer einzigen Nacht fast allesamt geschwängert wurden.
Etliche dreißig Reiter oder noch mehr, wir haben sie nicht gezählt, kamen in der vorgegebenen Absicht, unter den jungen Männern Novizen für die Garden auszuwählen. Und sie bezogen deshalb Quartier für einen Tag. Anstatt sich aber, wie angegeben, mit den jungen Männern zu befassen, geschah dieses vielmehr mit den Frauen und Mädchen. Aber es war fürwahr kein Befassen allein, sondern vielmehr Gewalt und Notzucht, so als wenn die fremden Horden von anno 2610 im Lande wären. Und dies, nachdem man die Garden zu einem Tanzfest in der Dreschhalle eingeladen hatte.
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