On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, kevin mccartney wrote:

>   Eric Seagel has commented that Leonardo di Vinci is "exceptionalism
> personified"; I would strongly argue that he is history's most overrated
> person.   To begin, he was not a scientist.

And neither was anybody else in those days.  "Scientist" is a modern
term, and means something that Da Vinci and his contemporaries would not
even comprehend in their culture.  You cannot fairly evaluate a
historical person by using today's criteria.


Richard Perry
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