![]() ![]() There’s an excellent list presented later in the book that is worth reproducing, even though each point is expanded in greater detail in the work itself. ![]() Little-known fact: Leonardo painted this specifically to fuck with future airport novelists. ![]() And that perhaps, Leonardo’s value exceeds his work – he’s most useful as a symbol of what curiosity can result in. We tend to picture him as an older man with long hair, thanks to a Francesco Melzi portrait, so it’s easy to forget that he was once a young man, or that he was largely self-educated, or that as well as being an able procrastinator, he was a proper polymath. The book certainly corrected that blind spot in my knowledge, but the author points out that most people don’t know a whole lot about the guy. What was surprising to me was how little I knew about Leonardo. All of which, naturally, was recorded in notebooks and documents in haphazard order, but with meticulous detail. Or to figure out what the tongue of a woodpecker looked like. Or, in the days before refrigeration, figuring out what the innards of humans looked like. ![]() Like figuring out how to drain swamps, or create weapons. I figure this is an expression his patrons were pretty familiar with. ![]()
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