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Leonardo was right all along, new medical scans show
He has long been praised as one of the finest artists of the Renaissance, working far ahead of his time and producing some of the world’s most recognisable works.
But Leonardo da Vinci has finally received the credit he deserves for his “startling” medical accuracy hundreds of years in advance of his peers, as scientists match his anatomical drawings with modern day MRI scans ...
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A recent article in the New York Times Sunday Review explains the latest findings on dyslexia which are leading to a new way of looking at the condition: not just as an impediment, but as an advantage, especially in certain artistic and scientific fields -
Dyslexia is a complex disorder, and there is much that is still not understood about it. But a series of ingenious experiments have shown that many people with dyslexia possess distinctive perceptual abilities. For example, scientists have produced a growing body of evidence that people with the condition have sharper peripheral vision than others. Gadi Geiger and Jerome Lettvin, cognitive scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, used a mechanical shutter, called a tachistoscope, to briefly flash a row of letters extending from the center of a subject’s field of vision out to its perimeter. Typical readers identified the letters in the middle of the row with greater accuracy. Those with dyslexia triumphed, however, when asked to identify letters located in the row’s outer reaches.
Intriguing evidence that those with dyslexia process information from the visual periphery more quickly also comes from the study of “impossible figures,” like those sketched by the artist M. C. Escher. A focus on just one element of his complicated drawings can lead the viewer to believe that the picture represents a plausible physical arrangement.
A more capacious view that takes in the entire scene at once, however, reveals that Escher’s staircases really lead nowhere, that the water in his fountains is flowing up rather than down — that they are, in a word, impossible. Dr. Catya von Károlyi, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, found that people with dyslexia identified simplified Escher-like pictures as impossible or possible in an average of 2.26 seconds; typical viewers tend to take a third longer. “The compelling implication of this finding,”
wrote Dr. Von Károlyi and her co-authors in the journal Brain and Language, “is that dyslexia should not be characterized only by deficit, but also by talent.”
"The inventions of nature are always superior to human inventions" - Leonardo da Vinci
From "the seed" of the BBC Computer Literacy Project -
to the Interactive Multimedia Presentation of Picasso's Guernica -
to "the blossoming" Marvel of Leonardo which is THE genius of the Touch Press iPad 3 app -
BRAVO and ALL hail to those who have obviously worked
with passion to bring "this particular" event to fruition.
We can pinpoint the emergence of Leonardo da Vinci’s interest in
human anatomy with some accuracy. It was at the end of the 1480s,
when he was working for Ludovico Maria Sforza, the swarthy ruler of
Milan. One day Leonardo sat down and inscribed the top of a sheet
of paper using his idiosyncratic right-to-left mirror writing with the
words, “On the 2nd day of April 1489”, adding later...
“Book entitled On the Human Figure”. As a new exhibition of his
anatomical studies at the Queen’s Gallery at the Palace of
Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh suggests, though, it would be another
two decades before he really hit his stride.
It is only a year, of course, since Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist,
a magnificent exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace
that showcased the full breadth of around 200 sheets of
anatomical studies by Leonardo in the Royal Collection.
Inevitably, the new exhibition, also curated by Martin Clayton,
feels less significant. While it sets Anatomical Manuscript A in
context by providing a handful of representative sheets from earlier
and later in Leonardo’s career, including one of the famous 1489
drawings of a sectioned skull, it does not offer a comprehensive
overview of his activities as an anatomist.
The exhumation of three bodies from a Florentine crypt may have
brought Italian researchers a step closer to confirming the identity of
the woman believed to be the subject of Leonardo da Vinci's
famous "Mona Lisa" painting, also known as "La Gioconda"
-which refers to Lisa Gherardini, the second wife of a Florentine silk
merchant, Francesco del Giocondo.
Yet another step in the journey to to truly understand the LIFE and WORKS of Leonardo.
masterpieces, drawn in the
early 1500s and thought to be
a self-portrait, is in extremely
poor condition and continues to
deteriorate each day.
The artwork, drawn in red chalk,
has been exposed to humidity
over the centuries and has
yellowed, but thanks to
breakthrough technology there
is new hope for halting its
degradation.
Scientists have developed a new approach to
identify the culprit of the yellowing without
interfering with the original drawing and the
knowledge gleaned could be used to preserve
and save the precious self- portrait.
What does it mean to be a genius? Is genius born or made
or both? How do you practice brilliancy? How do you cultivate
aliveness? How do you develop your multiple talents, loves
and abilities and how can you evolve in every aspect that
amounts to the complex equation of You?
THERE IS nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle than to initiate a new order of things” …
[IS] at this very [TIME] [BE]ing stealthily subverted by the very actions of the President of the USA and his cohorts, which increasingly appears to be DOING the WRONG THINGS for the WRONG REASONS, with regard to and respect for the FUTURE of human[KIND] as custodians of ALL THE PASSENGERS of Buckminster Fuller’s so-called Spaceship Earth.
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Bobbo has said elsewhere
In the words of Leonardo during his time at the Chateau d’Amboise …
”The great mystery of FLIGHT. Would that it gave the chance to escape this
mortal coil and all its travails. IF NOT for me then perhaps for others.”