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I remember the time, quite a long ago, when I have visited Leonard Da Vinci's house (museum today), where many of his original drawings and modern replicas wher
by alentred 3y ago
I remember the time, quite a long ago, when I have visited Leonard Da Vinci's house (museum today), where many of his original drawings and modern replicas where exhibited, and I have discovered many more apparatus than I knew he imagined.
I was very much inspired by human capacity to imagine the things that don't exist, and often couldn't even be created by the time they are imagined. Da Vinci's machines, first computers (Babbage's "analytical engine"), modern works like fusion power or quantum computers for example. And as new technology is invented and new discoveries are made we continue challenging ourselves.
Having said that I am certain humans are not the only ones able to do so. So I will live this open-ended like this, just a tribute to the marvelous complexity of the intelligent life on Earth.
- jacquesm 3y agoIt is inspiring. And many times when building things my most recurring thought is "I wonder how many other people have this exact same thing sitting in their garage". And far less frequently "How strange that nobody else thought of this before". Da Vinci was essentially a 'maker' but he didn't have todays tools, and you have to wonder what he would have been able to imagine with that kind of access that we today haven't seen yet and then go do that! At the same time: in the 1600's almost everything related to technology was still in the future and Da Vinci didn't even know about the possibilities of some of the fundamentals of technology yet. So without much knowledge about electricity, magnetism (though there was some of this it was very rudimentary) and other 'common' knowledge nowadays he was able to see very far indeed but only on those parts of science that were well illuminated at the time.
- zabzonk 3y agoto be pedantic, da vinci lived in the 1400s to 1500s.