In A Man of Misconceptions: The Life of an Eccentric in an Age of Change, John Glassie writes of 17th-century Jesuit priest and scientist Athanasius Kircher, a renaissance man who studied magnetism, ...

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“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.” —Leonardo da Vinci LOS ANGELES — As he raced against cancer to finish his fourth and final book, Leonardo’s Brain, author/inventor/surgeon Leonard ...

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Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci is surely the most iconic image of the Renaissance. Yet this tantalizingly complex drawing still contains plenty of mysteries for today’s scientists to uncover. Last ...

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There are, or were, before assorted 20th-century innovations, broadly two kinds of lyric poetry: the poetry of exaggeration (of the virtues of the poet’s beloved, of the depths of his own sensations) ...