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How Leonardo gave top surgeon change of heart
London Times ^
| 9/28/05
| Dalya Alberge
Posted on 09/29/2005 6:49:35 PM PDT by wagglebee
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It's really fascinating that Leonardo was so far beyond his time.
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posted on
09/29/2005 6:49:43 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
To: SunkenCiv; blam
Not really sure if this qualifies for GGG or not.
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posted on
09/29/2005 6:51:09 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: wagglebee
My money is still on Newton as the greatest recorded brain.
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posted on
09/29/2005 6:53:10 PM PDT
by
quantim
(Detroit is the New Orleans of the North as an example of a failed welfare state.)
To: wagglebee
Or, maybe Leonardo was merely a traveler stranded in a backwards place.
France's King Frances(?) built a university for Leonardo Da Vinci. He then dispatched his cousin, Rene d'Anjou, with a fleet to Padua to fight a war to rescue Leonardo and bring him to the university.
Among others who accompanied Rene were Christopher Columbus and his brother.
Whole lotta' stuff changed in this world after that event!
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posted on
09/29/2005 6:53:28 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
(/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again? How'bout a double sarcasm for this one)
To: wagglebee
"It's really fascinating that Leonardo was so far beyond his time."
The eye of a genius.
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posted on
09/29/2005 6:55:04 PM PDT
by
strategofr
(What did happen to those 293 boxes of secret FBI files (esp on Senators) Hillary stole?)
To: quantim
I would go with Leonardo, John Stuart Mill (who I disagree with on most things), Newton, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.
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posted on
09/29/2005 6:55:43 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: wagglebee
Personally, I think one of the Founding Fathers with the biggest brain was John Adams.
To: wagglebee
I almost sounds as if Leonardo operated on living animals and people to get the info he got. How could he understand valve motion and blood flow otherwise? A dead heart doesn't seem like it would give up a lot of details.
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posted on
09/29/2005 7:04:09 PM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
To: Siena Dreaming
I think John Adams certainly had an intellect that was probably close to being on par with Jefferson and Franklin; however, his ideas did not have the impact of theirs. His son was also a fascinating man whose intellect was seriously underestimated.
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posted on
09/29/2005 7:04:34 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: wagglebee
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posted on
09/29/2005 7:07:10 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
To: Siena Dreaming
Personally, I think one of the Founding Fathers with the biggest brain was John Adams. I vote for James Madison, the Father of our Constitution. Now that's one outstanding piece of work!
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posted on
09/29/2005 7:18:22 PM PDT
by
Max in Utah
(By their works you shall know them.)
To: wagglebee
You are forgetting to put Nikola Tesla as a #1 man who gave us most! All others pale in comparison and magnitude of their contribution to mankind. The greatest engineering genius and brain!
To: Leo Carpathian
Member of the Tesla cult?
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posted on
09/29/2005 7:30:06 PM PDT
by
em2vn
To: Leo Carpathian
Now I'm really offended, at all of you. Where is the diversity?? Why do you only acknowledge the dead white men as geniuses? What about the one-legged bisexual African midget feminist geniuses???
</sarcasm off>
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posted on
09/29/2005 7:30:44 PM PDT
by
BamaGirl
(The Framers Rule!)
To: wagglebee
Newton remains as the unbridled genius who was able to contemplate the Universe and convert that thought into mathematical formulas that launched a technological revolution that remains today. Of course many would argue 'Einstein' but he had quite a body of work before him, Newton did not.
Jefferson I suppose remains as the greatest political genius, at least as far as our country is concerned. Fortunately his ideas and methodology worked and we are here to brag about him.
da Vinci concentrated on more Earthly things, and remains as the greatest 'artist' of that century.
There are arrays of men and women on orders of magnitudes of smart people through out history with amazing historical perspective but there are very few actual 'geniuses.'
There are some that think Michael Moore is a genius.
There are some that think John Kerry is brave.
But there are certain things in history that are absolute and cannot be rewritten.
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posted on
09/29/2005 7:41:53 PM PDT
by
quantim
(Detroit is the New Orleans of the North as an example of a failed welfare state.)
To: quantim
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posted on
09/29/2005 7:52:18 PM PDT
by
spinestein
(Forget the Golden Rule. Remember the Brazen Rule.)
To: spinestein
And God said...
ò E.dA = q/e0
ò B.dA = 0
ò E.ds = -d/dt(ò B.dA)
ò B.ds = m 0ò j.dA,
...and there was light.
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posted on
09/29/2005 8:09:43 PM PDT
by
Professional Engineer
(See my book, "Percussive Maintenance For Dummies")
To: Professional Engineer
I used to have a T-shirt that had that printed on the front.
But I stopped wearing it because I got beat up a lot.
<?:^)
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posted on
09/29/2005 8:15:32 PM PDT
by
spinestein
(Forget the Golden Rule. Remember the Brazen Rule.)
To: spinestein
Einstein had Newton's work to go on. Newton INVENTED calculus, did he not? I could hardly understand it when I was taught it, but to invent it?!?! I think it would be a toss up between Newton and da Vinci. The problem is that they both contributed in such different areas that they complimented each other.
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posted on
09/29/2005 8:16:03 PM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.Walt Meier, of NSIDC, said: "Having four years in a ro)
To: spinestein
He was still two centuries behind Newton, but Maxwell is as smart as they get.
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posted on
09/29/2005 8:16:56 PM PDT
by
quantim
(Detroit is the New Orleans of the North as an example of a failed welfare state.)
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