1. Creativity

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Vlad Glăveanu
Keyword(s):  
Da Vinci ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
Creative Expression ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Creative People ◽  
Creative Person ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter defines creativity. It begins by studying the three examples of Prometheus, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Romanian protests, which illustrate three different expressions of creativity and three different universes of meanings associated with the term. The chapter then traces the history of creativity and appreciation for creative people. Ultimately, there is no single, unified definition of creativity. Cognitive definitions tell something about the creative person and the intra-psychological processes they engage in. Systemic and sociocultural reformulations help one consider the wider dynamic of creative expression beyond individual minds and point to the role played by the ideas of others and the broader culture.

“That Free Play of Human Affection”: The Humanist Ethics of Walter Pater’s The Renaissance

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 486-521
Author(s):  
Thomas Albrecht
Keyword(s):  
Da Vinci ◽  
Free Play ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
Fundamental Freedom ◽  
Secular Humanism ◽  
Aesthetic Responses ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Fundamental Uncertainty ◽  
Ethical Vision

Thomas Albrecht, “‘That Free Play of Human Affection’: The Humanist Ethics of Walter Pater’s The Renaissance” (pp. 486–521) This essay aims to refute received, persistent misconceptions of Walter Pater’s Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), and of aestheticism generally, as an asocial and amoral sensualism, and as a deliberate separating of art from human lives and the world. Contrary to these misconceptions, it finds a humanist ethical vision in The Renaissance, specifically in the essays Pater devotes to Botticelli, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci. Drawing on an established post-Enlightenment, post-Romantic tradition of Victorian secular humanism, Pater defines this vision in terms of human sympathies for the feelings and suffering of other persons. And he defines it in aesthetic terms, in terms of art’s unique capacity to depict human feelings and suffering, and thereby to arouse sympathies in the viewer. At the same time, the essay contends that Pater in The Renaissance also defines his ethical vision in a more unprecedented, radical way. Beyond the solicitation of human sympathies, he frames it in terms of a fundamental uncertainty and unpredictability, a fundamental freedom and singularity, of human ethical relationships and responses. For Pater, this uncertainty and freedom are the qualities that make an ethics genuinely ethical. Pater finds these qualities, and this kind of genuine ethics, epitomized in the unpredictability and freedom of human aesthetic responses, including his own, to art and beauty.

From Illusion to Reality: A Brief History of Robotic Surgery

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Vito Marino ◽  
Galyna Shabat ◽  
Gaspare Gulotta ◽  
Andrzej Lech Komorowski
Keyword(s):  
Robotic Surgery ◽  
Da Vinci ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
Greek Mythology ◽  
Surgical Robots ◽  
History Of ◽  
Critical Phases ◽  
And Training ◽  
Current Popularity

Purpose. Robotic surgery is currently employed for many surgical procedures, yielding interesting results. Methods. We performed an historical review of robots and robotic surgery evaluating some critical phases of its evolution, analyzing its impact on our life and the steps completed that gave the robotics its current popularity. Results. The origins of robotics can be traced back to Greek mythology. Different aspects of robotics have been explored by some of the greatest inventors like Leonardo da Vinci, Pierre Jaquet-Droz, and Wolfgang Von-Kempelen. Advances in many fields of science made possible the development of advanced surgical robots. Over 3000 da Vinci robotic platforms are installed worldwide, and more than 200 000 robotic procedures are performed every year. Conclusion. Despite some potential adverse events, robotic technology seems safe and feasible. It is strictly linked to our life, leading surgeons to a new concept of surgery and training.

scholarly journals From the History of the Journal “Severny Vestnik”. Commentary to the Commentary

Literary Fact ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 261-277
Author(s):  
Mikhail V. Stroganov
Keyword(s):  
Essential Role ◽  
Da Vinci ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
Personal Relationship ◽  
Short History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

The history of literary associations, including the history of any journal, is primarily the history of people's relationships with each other. In such a history, personal likes and dislikes play the most essential role. This law of personal sympathies and antipathies manifests itself very expressively in a rather short history of the journal “Severny Vestnik”, published by L.Ya. Gurevich (1891–1898). The article offers significant additions to comments to published texts on the history of the journal. A.L. Volynsky and N.K. Mikhailovsky showed equal harshness and indelicacy in their polemics, but their contemporaries almost unanimously sided with Mikhailovsky as an older and deserved writer. Volynsky acquired a reputation as an unscrupulous person and gossip begins to gather around his name. Volynsky demonstrated unacceptable immodesty towards D.S. Merezhkovsky and Z.N. Gippius and allowed himself to use of someone else's material, bordering on plagiarism. But most importantly, in the plot of the book about Leonardo da Vinci, he depicted his personal relationship with Merezhkovsky and Gippius and his interpretation of the relationship between them. In addition, he expelled Merezhkovsky from the journal “Severny Vestnik”, which closed for him the opportunity to publish his novel about Leonardo da Vinci.

scholarly journals I. Memoir on a Mappemonde by Leonardo da Vinci, being the earliest Map hitherto known containing the name of America; now in the Royal Collections at Windsor: in a Letter addressed to Augustus Wollaston Franks, Esq., Director

Archaeologia ◽  
1866 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-40
Author(s):  
Richard Henry Major
Keyword(s):  
Da Vinci ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Intrinsic Interest ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of Geography ◽  
History Of ◽  
Special Points

I have had placed in my hands by B. B. Woodward, Esq., F.S.A., the Queen's Librarian, a Map of the World, which he has found in Her Majesty's Library at Windsor, in the collection of papers in the handwriting of Leonardo da Vinci. Mr. Woodward's object in sending it to me was that I might ascertain as nearly as possible the date of its construction, from the nature of the geographical information which it contained. It was evident at a glance that, apart from the value attaching to it from its connection with so illustrious a name as that of Leonardo da Vinci, the map possessed an intrinsic interest in connection with the history of geography and cartography, inasmuch as it not only belonged to a period fertile in geographical discoveries, though scantily represented by maps which have come to our knowledge, but contained delineations of a stage in those discoveries not represented at all in any map with which I am acquainted. Independently of this, it happens to possess some special points of priority of information, which have led me to think it desirable to submit it, with the following notice of its contents, to the attention of the Society of Antiquaries.

scholarly journals Using Optical Coherence Tomography to Reveal the Hidden History of The Landsdowne Virgin of the Yarnwinder by Leonardo da Vinci and Studio

2018 ◽  
Vol 130 (25) ◽  
pp. 7518-7522
Author(s):  
Piotr Targowski ◽  
Magdalena Iwanicka ◽  
Marcin Sylwestrzak ◽  
Cecilia Frosinini ◽  
Jana Striova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Optical Coherence Tomography ◽  
Da Vinci ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
Optical Coherence ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Unpublished Manuscripts of Italian Bestiaries

PMLA ◽  
1905 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 380-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth McKenzie
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Da Vinci ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Preliminary Work ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Unpublished Manuscripts ◽  
Work Done ◽  
Comprehensive Study

Before the history of Italian bestiary literature can be satisfactorily written, considerable preliminary work remains to be done. When Lauchert published his Geschichte des Physiologus (Strassburg, 1889), although he devoted a certain amount of space to the poets from the Sicilian school to Ariosto, he was not aware that any bestiaries earlier than that of Leonardo da Vinci existed in Italian prose. Three years later, Goldstaub and Wendriner, Ein Tosco-Venezianischer Bestiarius (Halle, 1892), published the text of a manuscript belonging to the Biblioteca Comunale at Padua, and also an account of seven other manuscripts, all of which are in Florentine libraries. This book (cited hereafter as G-W) is the most comprehensive study of the Italian bestiaries now available, and may safely be taken as the basis for further investigation. The present paper, based in large part on work done in the libraries of Florence, Naples and Paris, is offered as a contribution to the study of the subject, and will, it is hoped, be of value in indicating a large amount of material, including several important manuscripts, which was entirely unknown to Goldstaub and Wendriner. An important phase of the subject, namely, the use of bestiary material by the Italian poets of the thirteenth century, has been investigated by Dr. M. S. Garver, of Yale University, in a dissertation which he hopes to publish soon.

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