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Self-portrait of Leonardo discovered in Leonardo's Codex on the Flight of Birds

Leonardo da Vinci

Date: 1485; Italy

Style: Early Renaissance

Genre: self-portrait

These are my thoughts on Leonardo's thoughts, the possibilities of double entendre (like a palindrome), and those he has inspired...

Quotes from the Da Vinci Notebooks and Brainy Quotes:

Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going.

Leonardo on birds... A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this by means of the curves of the winds which as they strike against these projections, being forced to preserve their first impetus bend their straight course towards the sky with divers revolutions, at the beginning of which the birds come to a stop with their wings open, receiving underneath themselves the continual buffetings of the reflex courses of the winds.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

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