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Description

This selection reveals a true Renaissance man, whose habit of rigorous enquiry, observation, and experiment, grounded in a philosophic system, led him to conceive of the universe as an organized cosmos corresponding to a work of art.

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First Sentence

Consider now, O reader! what trust can we place in the ancients, who tried to define what the Soul and Life are-which are beyond proof-whereas those things which can at any time be clearly known and proved by experience remained for many centuries unknown or falsely understood.

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  1. Leonardo (Author)
 

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