Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo showed an affinity for music at an early age and as a child was taught the Lyre upon which he became masterful. Could this musical training have been the foundation for his advancements in the learning of geometry and math?

Previous studies have shown that subjects with musical training outperform subjects without musical training in many areas unrelated to music. With regard to math ability, it has been proposed that musical training produces increased spatial-temporal reasoning ability, and that this translates into increased math ability.ßß The neurophysiological basis for the correlation between musical training and math ability, however, is not known. There are still many unresolved questions about precisely how the brain analyzes and interprets music, and t

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rum, elegance, and literature. The Romans and Greeks were not to be regarded as paragons of knowledge, but as paragons of excellence. At the core of their writings, in the rhetoric, education, poetry, morals and philosophy, the central figure was not Christ, not the transient, worthless figure of mankind as described by the medieval theologists, but man - independent, intelligent, adventurous, capable. This concentration on the human rather than the divine, an attitude which became known as humanist, was to characterize the next 100 years of Florentine and European thought (Burke, 1985, p. 68). It was this thought pattern that gave rise to the flourishing thoughts and artistic endeavors of Leonardo and his contemporaries - Michaelangelo and Nostradamus. This dangerous freedom of thought also lead the paranoid to masterfully disguise their ideas in poetic rhyme and backwards pen. Leonardo, who was left-handed, often wrote backwards to hide ideas he considered dangerous or too priceless to be stolen. A scandal in the late 1470's regarding Leonardo's sexuality has left many to preclude he was homosexual. The scandal was the result of a single accusatory letter left anonymously in a drop box for accusatory purposes. It is
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