> If you want to connect the dots between Da Vinci's appreciation of mother nature's works and modern technology, I highly recommend reading "Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics " by Eric Beinhocker:
http://www.amazon.com/Origin-Wealth-Evolution-Complexity-Economics/dp/157851777X > Can seems little off-topic, forgive me, but can be a nice > paradigm :: look > at Leonardo Da Vinci book (his brain was so clever...) > > " > 837. > Though human ingenuity may make various inventions which, by the > help of various machines answering the same end, it will never > devise any inventions more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more to > the purpose than Nature does; because in her inventions nothing is > wanting, and nothing is superfluous, and she needs no counterpoise > when she makes limbs proper for motion in the bodies of animals. But > she puts into them the soul of the body, which forms them that is > the soul of the mother which first constructs in the womb the form > of the man and in due time awakens the soul that is to inhabit it. > And this at first lies dormant and under the tutelage of the soul of > the mother, who nourishes and vivifies it by the umbilical vein, > with all its spiritual parts, and this happens because this > umbilicus is joined to the placenta and the cotyledons, by which the > child is attached to the mother. And these are the reason why a > wish, a strong craving or a fright or any other mental suffering in > the mother, has more influence on the child than on the mother; for > there are many cases when the child loses its life from them, &c. > > This discourse is not in its place here, but will be wanted for the > one on the composition of animated bodies--and the rest of the > definition of the soul I leave to the imaginations of friars, those > fathers of the people who know all secrets by inspiration. > > [Footnote 57: _lettere incoronate_. By this term Leonardo probably > understands not the Bible only, but the works of the early Fathers, > and all the books recognised as sacred by the Roman Church.] > I leave alone the sacred books; for they are supreme truth. > > On the relations of the soul to the organs of sense. > " > > So Adobe "Native Kernel" should Be Really Not Violated, it's evident. > > -- > Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org > ______________________________________________________________ > ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org > 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > > > __________ NOD32 3685 (20081212) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > > > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
