
Inside the mind of Leonardo da Vinci
The Forum
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Leonardo's Love of Nature
One of the major themes that does run through the notebooks is that of the natural world, isn't it? What was leonardo's relationship with nature on a personal level? How did this feed into his art? In the middle ages and in the renaissance, a science, which wasn't really a proper word, is really all under the rubric of natural philosophy. One can imagine that the idea of seeing birds fly would also be something very inspirational.
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