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Posted on 05/09/2019 7:31:54 AM PDT by fishtank
Leonardo’s dragon (How did he draw a dinosaur so accurately?)
by Philip Robinson
Published: 7 May 2019 (GMT+10)
The month of May 2019 marks the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo Da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519). The polymath was well known for his contributions to science, history, engineering, architecture, drawing and especially painting, with his most famous painting being the Mona Lisa. For this anniversary the UK’s Royal Collection Trust is displaying some of its collection of Leonardo drawings in 12 different locations. One particular drawing is causing a stir.
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I sure hope too many people won't melt at the sight of this article --- like too many did earlier this week.
After all, I thought Darwinists were supposed to be tough, with super strong survival-strength backbones.
New word. Cool
polymath: noun
a person of wide-ranging knowledge or learning.
So is the author suggesting that dinosaurs were around at the time of da Vinci?
Are you trying to imply he had seen actual dinosaurs?
Why is there a ‘dragon’ in almost every culture’s history, even Maya and Aztec?...................
I don’t see a dinosaur. I see a dragon, which is a mythical creature with a long history in Eurasian folklore. So, the better question is, why do dragons look so much like dinosaurs.
I don’t see a dinosaur. I see a dragon...
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I agree.
The body in the imnage shown doesn’t look much different from any other quadraped, except perhaps for claws and a few scales. Then take a long neck and tail from the dragon myth and voila. The head even looks more like an asian style dragon’s head, not so much like a dinosaur.
Also, we don’t really know what dinosaurs looked like anyway, just what their fossilized bones look like. Most of the rest is theory and educated reconstruction.
DaVinci was visually and spacially very creative. Why does an anatomically realistic looking ‘dragon’ drawing surprise anyone?
Jordan Peterson would say that man’s created mythologies (such as dragons) are hard-wired into humans by very deep biological and psychological processes, perhaps for our daily survival as a species, but also perhaps for some deep metaphysical explanation or representation of our existence and justification for being.
By that logic, Da Vinci never saw a real dragon, but the concept of them exists within all of us
Divine inspiration.
“...the better question is, why do dragons look so much like dinosaurs.”
Or vice versa.
“How did he draw a dinosaur so accurately?”
Saw it on a piece of Chinese pottery?
da Vinci could easily have seen a skeleton, since lost. Lots of Renaissance folks collected "curiosities".
Also a pretty good novel by John Brunner.
Remote viewing or Astral Projection.
It is likely that people in various cultures DID run across fossils and thus created these beings as something that was real.
Likely “dragons” are due to dinosaur-type fossils and it’s pretty well accepted that the Cyclops was due to elephantine (Mammoth, Mastodon) fossil skulls.
Why is there a ‘dragon’ in almost every culture’s history, even Maya and Aztec?...................
My thoughts exactly, not all Dinosaurs wend completely extinct prior to the rise of man.
John Brunner wrote a lot of good stuff. His work seems to be not commonly available any more. It’s a shame.
I have always wondered about that. How can we be so sure dragons are a myth? To me the dragon references were too widespread and persistent to be only a myth.
I have thought for a long time dragons were some sort of survivor dinosaurs, why do people think they could not be? There are still animals on earth that it is widely accepted lived at the time dinosaurs lived. How can we be so sure that all dinosaurs died at X time and there were no survivors?
It makes sense to me that some dinosaurs did survive to become extinct much, much later.
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