Leonardo’s dragon (How did he draw a dinosaur so accurately?)

Creation Ministries International ^ | Published: 7 May 2019 (GMT+10) | Philip Robinson

[Mastador1]

Here's a thought, since depictions of St. Theodore and St. George slaying dragons predate Leonardo by a very long time maybe he simply as others did before him used his imagination and unquestioned talent to simply refine and expand on previous representations.

NAH!, that would require the author to do all of two minutes research and blow his ideas all to hell and back. Hey that gives me a great idea for a title of a Audie Murphy Bio, should I check to see if anyone else has done that, nah, then I might find out my idea is shit.

[dp0622]

You’re out of your mind :)

[Yollopoliuhqui]

“Face on Mars” people at the wheel again.

[I want the USA back]

His drawing was imaginative. He did not intend it to be a dinosaur or specific other species. He called it a dragon. That’s not a dinosaur. Today, with knowledge of what dinosaurs looked like, the drawing fits in with our image of a dinosaur, and we call it a dinosaur.

Some loudly proclaim that Da Vinci had knowledge of what a dinosaur looked like. That conclusion is not reasonable.

[central_va]

This is really dumb.

[Boogieman]

You, sir, are an autodidactic paragon of polymathy.

[dfwgator]

You, sir, are an autodidactic paragon of polymathy.

"You use your tongue prettier than a twenty-dollar whore."

[Venkman]

All those pictures of Jesus riding a dinosaur are real!

[DJ MacWoW]

I bought a book in the 80's that posited dinosaurs still existed well into the 1500's and that gave rise to stories of "dragons". It had drawings and accounts of "small dragons" being killed in France by farmers who found them feasting in their fields. The drawings were done at the time of the events.

There was also a photo of a Japanese fishing boat that caught the body of what appeared to be a plesiosaur that they had snagged while trawling.

It was an interesting book and someone "5 fingered" it. Wish that I still had it.

[dblshot]

OK, but how’d he get the Starbucks cup right?

[Red Badger]

That’s what I think, some dinos survived mass extinction, only to become extinct when man rose up to hunt them for food..................

[Red Badger]

That’s what I think, some dinos survived mass extinction, only to become extinct when man rose up to hunt them for food..................

[central_va]

That’s what I think, some dinos survived mass extinction, only to become extinct when man rose up to hunt them for food............

Fasten your seat belts we are in for a bumpy ride.

[winslow]

Dinosaurs lived with man. Recent discoveries of dinosaur soft tissue, DNA, and blood cells are evidence of that. Plus there is pictures and figurines from around the world that clearly decipt dinosaurs.

[Celtic Conservative]

I’m guessing one of the Doctor’s “field trips”.

CC

[Celtic Conservative]

Dinosaurs exist now. They’re called birds.

CC

[discostu]

Who says they do. Dragons look like how we IMAGINE dinosaurs looked. Maybe. Unless they had feathers, or something else. In the long run dragons are big lizards, and we think dinosaurs were big lizards, and oddly we draw big lizards like big lizards.

[Robert A Cook PE]

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.

Well, when you look at a dragon's bones (er, fossilized dinosaur bones in the rocks) you SEE EXACTLY what Leonardo drew. Twisted long back, legs, head, eye and "nose" sockets - everything fits what the people saw everyday as they slaughtered and cooked cows and pigs and sheep for food.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Do not the classic “troll” or “ogre” resemble what we now call Neanderthals? (Taller, heavy-set, enlarged bones and larger skull, heavy eyebrows and a hunched look.)

And photos of a dwarf mammoth skull resemble the mythological cyclops - the vast nasal cavity is seen as a single eye, which do NOT resemble very visible “classic” eyesockets in a human skull.

[Red Badger]