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.

“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.

scholarly journals History of robotic surgery : From AESOP® and ZEUS® to da Vinci®

2011 ◽  
Vol 148 (5) ◽  
pp. e3-e8 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Pugin ◽  
P. Bucher ◽  
P. Morel
Keyword(s):  
Robotic Surgery ◽  
Da Vinci ◽  
History Of

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 The history of robotic surgery and its evolution: when illusion becomes reality

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDRE LUIZ GIOIA MORRELL ◽  
ALEXANDER CHARLES MORRELL-JUNIOR ◽  
ALLAN GIOIA MORRELL ◽  
JOSE MAURICIO FREITAS MENDES ◽  
FRANCISCO TUSTUMI ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Robotic Surgery ◽  
Da Vinci ◽  
Invasive Procedures ◽  
Robotic Technology ◽  
Robot System ◽  
Computer Assistance ◽  
Advanced Technologies ◽  
History Of ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
And Robotics

ABSTRACT The term “robot” was concepted in the beginning of last century, coming originally from the Czech word “robota”, meaning “labor”. More recently, computer assistance and robotics based in the telepresence and virtual reality concept have been applied to surgical procedures. The application of robots in surgery dates approximately 35 years, experiencing significant growth in the last two decades fueled by the advent of advanced technologies. Despite its recent and brief status in surgery history, robotic technology has already proven its enhanced visualization, superior dexterity and precision during minimally invasive procedures. Currently, the worldwide diffused and predominant robot system used in surgery is Da Vinci by Intuitive Surgical, however robotic surgery evolution is far from over, with multiple potential competitors on the horizon pushing forward its paradigms. We aim to describe the history and evolution of robotic surgery in the last years as well as present its future perspectives.

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
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