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Thread: Not only is it rubbish, but L. da V. is over-rated.
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Dursley Pedersen
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Well, I haven't read it, I confess, but it certainly looks like rubbish. Its central thesis is certainly balderdash, as seems to be implicitly admitted by the fact that it's a novel, not a non-fiction book.
Leonardo was a supreme draughtsman, but that's all. His paintings strike me as cold and unemotional. 'The Last Supper' is in ruins because the dozy bugger painted onto dry instead of wet plaster, which he ought to have known was wrong. Another mural of his is now lost for the same reason.
Many of his much-vaunted inventions would not have worked if they'd ever left the drawing-board, which most of them didn't, often because of a simple design fault which any bright schoolchild could have spotted.
No scientific theory bears his name, and he was distinctly ethically challenged as well, designing weapons of war for one of the Borgias (I can't remember which), who was a psychopathic tyrant.
All in all, a bit of a failure, if you ask me. Why everyone regards him as the supreme renaissance genius is beyond me. Michelangelo is vastly superior.
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mousethief
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Like casting aspersions on people who are more highly regarded than you are, don't you?
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Jason™
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Oh, and don't even get me started on that Thomas Edison guy...
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CraigS
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I hear Einstein was no einstein...
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CraigS
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often because of a simple design fault which any bright schoolchild could have spotted.
Could you point to a couple of examples?
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Teufelchen
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quote:
Originally posted by Dursley Pedersen:
Any serious responses?
When a serious thesis has been advanced in place of unqualified mud-slinging, perhaps.
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Dursley Pedersen
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I gave a number of good arguments why L. da V. is over-rated, but it seems most people here are more interested in back-biting and sarcasm than debate. Well, thgis time I really am off. What a remarkably unpleasant place this is! Sarcastic comments built into the very software, a very short editing time limit because the mods don't trust the members, a bunch of control-freaks running the place, and most peole spending most of their time here picking arguments and being thoroughly unpleasant to each other.
P.S. Craig at least gave a reasonable response and deserves a reasonable answer.
His diving suit had an air hose of rubber, which would have collapsed under water-pressure before the diver got to any depth, as a TV programme which built it to his specifications some time ago demonstrated. They had to reinforce the tube to make it laterally rigid before it worked.
His mobile siege-engine thingy - a sort of early tank, powered by the people in it, got the gearing wrong: the front wheels and the back wheels would have turned in opposite directions! Again, the TV prog. could only make it work by modifying it.
And now, I'm off.
If anyone else is fed up with it, and would like to try some Christian forums where the members are more interested in debate and harmless fun than slagging each other off, and the modding is more reasonable, they might like to click [Links violating Commandment 9 removed]. Of course, we have the occasional spat on them as well, but we don't go out of our way to stir them up, or spend all our time being saky at others' expence.
[ 19. May 2006, 13:39: Message edited by: Belisarius ]
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Louise
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quote:
Originally posted by Dursley Pedersen:
I gave a number of good arguments why L. da V. is over-rated, but it seems most people here are more interested in back-biting and sarcasm than debate. Well, thgis time I really am off. What a remarkably unpleasant place this is! Sarcastic comments built into the very software, a very short editing time limit because the mods don't trust the members, a bunch of control-freaks running the place, and most peole spending most of their time here picking arguments and being thoroughly unpleasant to each other.
P.S. Craig at least gave a reasonable response and deserves a reasonable answer.
His diving suit had an air hose of rubber, which would have collapsed under water-pressure before the diver got to any depth, as a TV programme which built it to his specifications some time ago demonstrated. They had to reinforce the tube to make it laterally rigid before it worked.
His mobile siege-engine thingy - a sort of early tank, powered by the people in it, got the gearing wrong: the front wheels and the back wheels would have turned in opposite directions! Again, the TV prog. could only make it work by modifying it.
And now, I'm off.
If anyone else is fed up with it, and would like to try some Christian forums where the members are more interested in debate and harmless fun than slagging each other off, and the modding is more reasonable, they might like to click [Links violating Commandment 9 Removed]. Of course, we have the occasional spat on them as well, but we don't go out of our way to stir them up, or spend all our time being saky at others' expence.
Mousethief, and anyone else so inclined, take all personal arguments and swipes to Hell, not this thread. Dursley Pederson, complaints about hosts, admins, the board software etc. belong in The Styx, not on other boards.
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Dark Knight
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Unlike DP, I think Da Vinci himself was probably a genius.
Like DP, I think it is fair to say, I am sure Dan Brown is not one. Just a smart bloke with a thing for codes and the nous to write a page turner.
I have read the book. It is compulsive reading, makes you want to get to the end as quickly as possible. Doesn't leave you with much though. Plot moves fast, but promises a better, more logical conclusion than it delivers. And Brown's theological and historical errors (which I assume are documented on another thread) are pretty irritating.
Reading DVC is like using porn - feels good while its all happening, but leaves you just feeling guilty for wasting time, and the climax just isn't as good as you'd hoped. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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