Leonardo Da Vinci

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Leonardo Da Vinci and the artistic
scientists Keith Davies Rothamsted
Research, Harpenden, AL5 2JQ, UK
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Damien Hirsts Away from the Flock
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Courtesy Roslin Institute Web site
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An imp of demonic triviality inhabits
the imperial regime of the sciences
George Steiner
Courtesy Roslin Institute Web site
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And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from
man, made he a woman. Genesis Carving by
Andrea Pisano, Florence
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In 1989 it was reported that antibody genes from
mice could be moved and expressed in tobacco
plants
In 1996 tomato paste from genetically modified
tomatoes went on sale in the UK
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Greenpeace campaign Whos afraid
of Frankenfood? lead to an article published in
Time
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Wisdom, empathy and compassion have no place
in the empirical world yet traditional wisdoms
would ask "without them are we truly
human? HRH Prince Charles
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Art is made to disturb... Science
reassures Georges Braques
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Michelangelos Creation of Adam
Sistine chapel painted between 1508 - 1512
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We need go no further than the Mona Lisa -to
recognize the ana- logy of macrocosm and
microcosm as the center piece of
his thought Stephen Jay Gould The upwardly
mobile fossils of Leonardos living earth
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Leonardo da Vincis anatomical sketches from
his notebooks
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Leonardo da Vincis anatomical sketch of a human
skull from his notebooks
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Cross-section of human skull and brain
together with a diagramatic representation
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Frank Meshbergers Interpretation of
Michelangelos Creation of Adam
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Frank Meshbergers Interpretation of
Michelangelos Creation of Adam
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Michelangelos Creation of Adam
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Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical
sciences Thus a bird is an instrument
working to mathematical law Leonardo da
Vinci
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Doctor, poet, inventor and key member of
the Lunar Society
E CONCHIS OMNIA
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ADVERTISEMENT. The general design of the
following sheets is to inlist Imagination under
the banner of Science Erasmus Darwin 1791
Fertilization of Egypt Etching by William Blake
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William Blakes Book of Thel (1789) A naked
youth jumps out of one bloom to seize a girl
emerging from the next bloom, just as in
Darwins Loves of the Plants.
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Portrait of Isaac Newton Godfrey Kneller (1689)
Isaac Newton (1795) William Blake
1642 - 1727
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Now I a fourfold vision see And a fourfold
vision is given to me Tis fourfold in my supreme
delight And three fold in soft Beulahs night
And twofold Always. May God us keep From Single
vision Newtons sleep
William Blakes four fold picture of man Milton
Book II
The Mundane Egg
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My mind seems to have become a kind of
machine for grinding laws out of large
collections of facts Charles Darwin
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I wanted very much to learn to draw, for
a reason that I kept to myself I wanted to
convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the
world
Richard Feynman
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The Red Tree 1908
The Gray Tree 1912
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Flowering Apple Tree 1912
Composition 3 1912/13
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Composition 6 1914
Composition Colour Planes with Grey
Contours 1918
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Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue 1921/22
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Composition London 1940/42
New York City 1 1942
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Broadway Boogie-Woogie 1942/43
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Mendel
Darwin
McClintock
Crick Watson
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when you move to the big ideas the two art and
science are indistinguishable
John Sulston The DNA image of Sir John
Sulston by Marc Quinn at the National
Portrait Gallery
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Spots of powdery mildew on the leaves of wheat
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Life-cycle of Blumeria graminis, Downey mildew
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Fungal structures of Blumeria graminis, Downey
mildew
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Electron micrograph conidia
Conidia Multi
Conidia Vs
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Simplification
Mixing scales
Repousé
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Homage to Newton Salvador Dali Bronze
sculpture 1985
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Newton by Eduardo Paolozzi
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It represents an antagonism to the mathematical
basis of science Prof. Mansel Davies
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An imp of demonic triviality inhabits
the imperial regime of the sciences
George Steiner Grammers of Creation, 2001
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We must not perish by the distance between
people and govern- ment, between people and
power Jacob Bronowski (1974) Ascent of Man
and I might add by the distance between
science and society.
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