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337 pages, Hardcover
Published October 20, 2016
... his intellectual dependence on medieval culture prevented him from overcoming the prejudices inherited from the classical past... All Leonardo's experiments that aimed at exploring the world around him were engulfed by this basic prejudice. It was an ideological filter that hindered his scientific examination of nature... Leonardo was not the new man but... the last of the old men.p.143