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Leonardo da Vinci can be regarded as a person from several points of view: his vocation as an artist, his profession as an engineer (essentially military, including civil engineering in those days), his avocation as an amateur of nature. The resulting views, however, are not independent. Leonardo, therefore, must be looked upon as a whole person; indeed, he must be continually re-viewed by each generation, individually by each person.
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Seeger, R.J. (1974). On the Physical Insights of Leonardo Da Vinci. In: Seeger, R.J., Cohen, R.S. (eds) Philosophical Foundations of Science. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2126-5_3
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