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Leonardo Da Vinci as a philosopher.
Philosophical thought of the Renaissance was closely associated with the development of science. The most striking and consistent expression of a new trend of philosophical thought found in the work of one of the greatest scientist of the Renaissance - Leonardo Da Vinci. The titanic figure of Leonardo Da Vinci (born in 1452 in the town of Vinci, near Florence, he worked in Florence, Milan, Rome, the last years of his life - in France, where he died in the castle Clos-Luce, near the town of Amboise, in 1519) holds regarded as the most complete embodiment of the Renaissance genius, the realization of the ideal of "heroic man."
Leonardo Da Vinci, of all known artists in the history of mankind, has the most comprehensive genius. He considered himself primarily an artist, but from his notebooks and drawings show that in their view about the art he put a lot of what we now call the natural-scientific questions. He was as confident in the power of human vision as an excellent tool to study the nature of that see and know, in his opinion, was the same. Artists, he said, its best scientists, and they not only observe nature better than others, but think about what they observe and then tell others about what they saw in the pictures. Current scientists prefer to transfer their knowledge in words, and for this purpose they invented a lot of new words, during the Renaissance believed that "a good picture worth more than a thousand words."
For the history of philosophical thought of the Renaissance, Leonardo phenomenon is interesting primarily as an indication of trends.
Scattered notes general philosophical and methodological, lost among the thousands of equally disparate records on a variety of science, technology, art. Creativity, never intended not only for printing, but also for any general distribution. Made in the strict sense of "to him," mirror handwriting, never given to the system, they did not become the property of not only...