Word: vinci
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus man's experimenting swerves back over old trails. More than 400 years ago Leonardo da Vinci, great artist, scientist, wished to fly. That seems to have been the one constant wish throughout his long & lively life-to fly. He knew of course nothing about modern motive power, although he did make some contraptions to operate by steam force. Therefore it was directly to birds that he turned discerning thoughts. He studied the mechanics of their flights, the comparative anatomy of their bodies. He built flying machines and, superb and practical engineer, he knew before he tried them that...
There are pictures and plans of various air ports of the United States, as well as a miniature of Boston's airport. Among the historic material are Leonardo da Vinci's "Studies of Bird Flights". Archimedes' "Geometry and Hydraulics", and a picture and account of a balloon inflation and ascension in France in 1785, as well as much magazine material, including contemporary periodicals...
...indivisible elements of his personality?" This is a fine and an austere credo for a biographer. Author Ludwig who followed it so completely and so admirably in his Napoleon, now applies it to a condensed explanation of men whose genius has been exposed in their actions. Da Vinci writing down the wild & enormous range of Nature's behavior; Stanley voyaging into Africa to find Livingston; Cecil Rhodes thinking of his grave on a windy hill; Rembrandt staring at his face in many mirrors; Byron, Balzac, Shakespeare; and Voltaire writing his thin and bitter curses. These, and many another, pass...
...foremost writers of biography today, already known in this country for his studies of Napoleon and Wilhem HohenzoHern. In this new book, prefaced by an introduction on the writings of history, he deals with nineteen men of genius, Frederick the Great, Wilson, Bismarck, Lenin, Da Vinci, Voltaire, Rembrandt, Byron, Balzac, Shakespeare, Goethe and eight others. In this work one will find Ludwig's theory of the causes and effects of the appearance of a world genius in human society...
...Fogg Museum at noon today Professor Post will give his second lecture on Leonardo da Vinci...