Word: vinci
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lore of Flight. Edited by John W.R. Taylor. 430 pages. Tre Tryclcare and Time Life Books. $30. From Leonardo da Vinci's arm powered aircraft design to the last entry (Zurich airport) in the book's splendidly detailed Encyclopaedic Index, this is the literary package best calculated to keep air-minded readers desk or rug-bound for weeks. What sets the book apart is not only how much it has packed into reasonably small compass, but the precision and beauty of its illustrations, including galleries of great flying machines from then...
...Australia. By the time he started contributing to our Art section last year, Hughes had published a second book, Heaven and Hell in Western Art (1968), and scores of reviews for the London Sunday Times and the Observer. His current project is a biography of Leonardo da Vinci...
...already robust tradition of the German print, he almost singlehandedly provoked the Northern Renaissance. No single aspect of Dürer's work can do justice to the protean richness of his imagination and temperament. For all-round inquisitiveness, he was surpassed only by his older contemporary, Leonardo da Vinci...
...first-generation American born of a Sicilian father and a mother from Abruzzi. I have always been proud of Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Verdi, Rossini, Dante and Renata Tebaldi. I was not proud to learn that the very clever "spicy meataball" Alka-Seltzer commercial had been removed from television. I was at first amused, then appalled, finally embarrassed...
...shall be cloned, and why? Great scientists? Composers? Statesmen? When Geneticist Hermann J. Muller first broached the idea of sperm banks in Out of the Night (1935), he suggested Lenin as a sperm donor. In later editions, Lenin was conspicuously absent, replaced on Muller's list by Leonardo da Vinci, Descartes, Pasteur, Lincoln and Einstein. Society could well be as fickle?or worse?about cloning. It might create a caste of subservient workers, as in 1984, or a breed of super-warriors out of a "genetics race" between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. An even more hideous nightmare would...