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Leonardo Da Vinci: Renaissance Man
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, Rosheim offered compelling historical and mechanical evidence that da Vinci had designed - and perhaps built - automata. Rosheim pointed to da Vinci's so-called Robot Knight, a cable-and-pulley-driven artificial man, which had been thought to be a simple suit of arms. Citing drawings discovered decades earlier by Italian scholar Carlo Pedretti, Rosheim explained how the figure "sat up, waved its arms, moved its head via a flexible neck, and opened and closed its anatomically correct jaw - possibly emitting sound while accompanied by automated musical instruments such as drums."
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This collection contains one of the finest accumulations in the Western Hemisphere of prints, manuscripts in facsimile and books by and about Leonardo da Vinci. This collection was started with a donation by John William Lieb.
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The Da Vinci Code claims that some of the documents Constantine tried to destroy managed to survive in scrolls found in 1945 at Nag Hammadi, Egypt. These scrolls allegedly "highlight glaring historical discrepancies and fabrications, clearly confirming that the modern Bible was compiled and edited by men who possessed a political agenda—to promote the divinity of the man Jesus Christ and use His influence to solidify their own power base" (The Da Vinci Code, p.234).
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Da Vinci heeft ook een aanvaring gehad met de paus. Op een manuscriptvel noteerde Da Vinci dat de paus, aan wiens hof hij resideerde, hem betrapt had op anatomisch onderzoek op menselijke lijken. Ook is in een van zijn notities de opmerking "De zon staat stil" te vinden, volgens sommigen een verwijzing naar een heliocentrische kijk die tegen de dan geldende dogma's inging.
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