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 [log in to unmask]