It wasn't the Russians but the Martians who should be investigated.
Posted on 05/09/2019 7:31:54 AM PDT by fishtank
It wasn't the Russians but the Martians who should be investigated.
The word Dinosaur had not been thought of during Da Vinci's lifetime. According to Colliers Encyclopedia 1921 "Dinosauria, a tribe or sub-order of reptiles established by Herman von Meyer in 1832, and subsequently called by him Pachypode, or Pachypoda. In 1841 Professor Owen gave them the name which they still retain, Dinosauria."
Before that were the stories/myths/legends of dragons. Any fossils or bones found before Meyer and Owen came up with their terms would likely have been believed by the people who saw them to have been from a dragon.
Where Did Dragons Come From?
January 23, 2012
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2012/01/where-did-dragons-come-from/
The First Fossil Hunters
by Adrienne Mayor, foreword by Peter Dodson
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0691058636/sunkencivilizati
Greek Myths: Not Necessarily Mythical
Source: New York Times
Published: 7/4/00 Author: John Noble Wilford
Posted on 07/07/2000 07:37:37 PDT by H.R. Gross
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3965eb3163de.htm
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/04/science/greek-myths-not-necessarily-mythical.html
‘Cyclops’-like remains found on Crete
CNN | Friday, January 31, 2003 Posted: 2:52 AM HKT (1852 GMT) | Editorial Staff
Posted on 02/01/2003 11:07:21 AM PST by vannrox
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/833994/posts
man’s created mythologies (such as dragons) are hard-wired into humans
That explains religions and dragons.
But what about braille buttons at a drive-up ATM?
DaVinci lived on the same streets and kitchens where animals were killed, stripped, sectioned debonef every day.
He KNEW how the bodies and bones were out together - alive and dead.
Ah, another new word:
autodidactic noun
a self-taught person.
My next DNA project is to make an elephant with one big eye on his forehead.
I first read that as ‘self-taught pagan.’
Works just aa well on a thread like this.
How did a diaphragm type lung evolve into an avian type lung? I haven’t seen a plausible step by step explanation for that yet. Is there any evidence at all for scales to feather evolution?
How were dinosaur DNA and blood cells preserved for 65 million years?
Our ancestors came across dinosaur bones just like we did. They did not have want or need to put them together and display them in a museum.
Or the signs in the window that say “leader dogs welcome”. Who’s reading this?
Also there are many tiny dragons/dinosaurs that are scurrying around.
https://tinyurl.com/yxvcyfac
Every autodidact knows that word.
Maybe he had seen a Viking boat...
Those dinosaur slaughter days probably involved several blocks.
It is pretty easy for an artist who grew up with lizards in the garden and maybe a couple drinks in him to think “What if these could grow really big?”
All around the world there are lizards of every description… including huge monitor lizards which had to make some impression. And tales of these things go with traders like any other commodity, growing more fantastic each time they are told like fish stories.
And children can imagine all sorts of things in the nightmares that come with growth spurts and changing hormones.
Romans had to run across fossils as well with all the stonework in the ancient world. Some distant cousin of mine ran across bones- I think they were mastodon - and sent them as a gift to Jefferson. Lots of inspiration for artists in a stoneworking culture that depends on sedimentary rock.
That is all true.
The story of St. George and the Dragon had become a legend before the time Da Vinci, and in fact he did drawings of that battle. So it is likely he was drawing a dragon because of the legend.
https://www.rct.uk/collection/912331/horses-st-georgenbspfightingnbspthe-dragon-and-a-lion
I have also read that he cut up human cadavars and I would assume animals too. He was driven to find out how animals and people were put together and how they moved.
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