Unresolved Futurities: On Hermeneutical Shapes

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-66
Author(s):  
Ammon Allred
Keyword(s):  
Da Vinci ◽  
Thought Experiment ◽  
Temporal Structure ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
Being And Time ◽  
Crucial Importance ◽  
Mediating Role

I offer a hermeneutical/deconstructive interpretation of a specific drawing by Leonardo da Vinci and a thought-experiment suggested by that drawing. My reason for turning to this drawing is that it graphically illustrates an ambiguity in Martin Heidegger's notion of the hermeneutical circle. I take this ambiguity to be illustrative of an interpretive problem of crucial importance to mainstream interpretations of Heidegger as well as to the hermeneutical and deconstructive traditions. I explicate this problem through an interpretation of relevant passages in Being and Time and argue 1) that there are two different, irreducible understandings of futurity in Heidegger's thought, and 2) that Heidegger's understanding of the present helps to mediate these different meanings of futurity. The thought experiment with which the article begins raises questions about the role of the imagination in understanding the temporal structure of intentionality. By calling attention to the mediating role that the present plays in Heidegger's understanding of temporality in Part II of Being and Time, I argue for an interpretation of the hermeneutics of understanding that better answers the questions posed by this thought experiment.

scholarly journals The Ginevra de’ Benci Effect: Competence, Morality, and Attractiveness Inferred From Faces Predict Hiring Decisions for Women

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michela Menegatti ◽  
Sara Pireddu ◽  
Elisabetta Crocetti ◽  
Silvia Moscatelli ◽  
Monica Rubini
Keyword(s):  
Da Vinci ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
Hiring Decisions ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Hiring Decision ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Attractive Face

The present study examined the role of morality, competence, and attractiveness as perceived from faces in predicting hiring decisions for men and women. Results showed that for both female and male applicants, facial competence significantly predicted the hiring decision directly and indirectly, through the mediation of the overall impression. Decisions concerning female applicants were, however, significantly predicted by multiple dimensions—that is, facial morality, facial competence, and attractiveness—with the mediation of the overall impression. Facial competence was the only significant predictor of impression and, in turn, hiring decision about men. These findings resonate the motto Virtutem forma decorat, “Beauty adorns virtue,” painted by Leonardo da Vinci on the reverse side of the portrait of Ginevra de’ Benci, and suggest that women’s chances of getting a job are less than those of men whenever they do not show a moral and competent and attractive face.

scholarly journals Anatomy of a Dispute: Leonardo, Pacioli and Scientific Courtly Entertainment in Renaissance Milan

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Azzolini
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Da Vinci ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Social Advancement

AbstractHistorians have recently paid increasing attention to the role of the disputation in Italian universities and humanist circles. By contrast, the role of disputations as forms of entertainment at fifteenth-century Italian courts has been somewhat overlooked. In this article, the Milanese "scientific duel" (a courtly disputation) described in Luca Pacioli's De divina proportione is taken as a vantage point for the study of the dynamics of scientific patronage and social advancement as reflected in Renaissance courtly disputes. Pacioli names Leonardo da Vinci as one of the participants in the Milanese dispute. In this paper I argue that Leonardo's Paragone and Pacioli's De divina proportione are likewise the outcome of the Milanese "scientific duel." By challenging the traditional hierarchy of the arts, they both exemplify the dynamics of social and intellectual promotion of mathematicians and artists in the privileged setting of Renaissance courts, where courtly patronage could subvert the traditional disciplinary rankings.

scholarly journals Leonardo da Vinci and medicine. A glimpse from the past

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (12) ◽  
pp. 9-14
Author(s):  
Leonid I. Dvoretsky ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Da Vinci ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
Human Anatomy ◽  
Practical Medicine ◽  
The Past ◽  
Creative Role

The article is devoted to the creative role of Leonardo da Vinci in human anatomy, medicine and pathology. It discusses main discoveries of Leonardo in various fields of medicine from the standpoint of modern scientific and practical medicine. The nature of Leonardo's illness and the possible causes of his death are dis-cussed.

You Saw the Whole of the Moon: The Role of Imagination in the Perceptual Construction of the Moon

Leonardo ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 246-252
Author(s):  
Colleen Boyle
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Da Vinci ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Lunar Orbiter ◽  
Short History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Over Time

The author offers a short history of how our perceptual relationship with the Moon has changed over time. Examples of lunar imaging by Early Renaissance painter Jan Van Eyck, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, 19th-century photographer James Nasmyth and NASA's Ranger and Lunar Orbiter missions of the 1960s reveal ways in which our perception of the Moon has changed. Images of the Moon produced by technology remain far from “complete”—they are akin to fragments, sketches or models, providing information upon which the imagination can build. How we imagine the Moon, the author argues, is symbiotically linked with our representations of it; we only perceive the truly complete, whole Moon in the non-localized zone of our imaginations.

On the Origins of Elastic Stability Studies Before the XVIII Century

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis A. Godoy
Keyword(s):  
Da Vinci ◽  
Elastic Stability ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
Axial Loads ◽  
Xviii Century ◽  
Leonhard Euler ◽  
History Of ◽  
Experimental Works ◽  
Lateral Deflections

The identification of the origins of what we now call the theory of elastic stability is not an easy task. Most authors trace the origins to the pioneering work of Leonhard Euler in 1744, and some (including this author) shift this origin to the experimental works of Petrus van Musschenbroek in 1729. However, other contemporary authors interested in the history of the discipline postulate that the works of Medieval and Renaissance scholars should be considered as the true sources of the buckling studies performed in the XVIII Century. This paper reports our historical research using original manuscripts of Al-Khazini, Jordanus de Nemore, Leonardo da Vinci, and Marini Merssene, in order to discuss what kind of knowledge they had about the topics of stability and lateral deflections of columns under axial loads. Our investigation shows that there were observations of the phenomenon considered, but those observations were not translated into a deeper understanding of the phenomenon, so that the causes of this effect or the role of strength on the response were not considered. Leonardo was closer to understanding the nature of the problem and produced some tentative rules of behavior; however, those were only documented in private writings and did not make an impact in his contemporaries. We postulate that studies prior to the XVIII Century were very limited in their scope and cannot be considered as the basis of the developments of Musschenbroek and Euler.

Training Phonological Awareness in Children through Pedagogical Technologies: An App for Learning Italian as a Foreign Language

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Diana Peppoloni ◽  
Emanuele Bonesso
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Phonological Awareness ◽  
Da Vinci ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
Linguistic Ability ◽  
Didactic Strategies

This article analyses the role of phonological awareness (PA) in developing reading and writing skills in young learners, studying Italian as a Foreign Language. Its main objective is to identify and describe original didactic strategies supporting students in training PA, the metalinguistic strategy that allows them to reflect and manipulate the phonemic units composing words (Nijakowska, 2010). Research on PA shows a direct correlation between training this linguistic ability and improving learners’ linguistic competencies, either in their native language or in a foreign one (Bus & van IJzendoorn, 1999; Ehri et al., 2001; Snow et al., 1999; Ganschow & Sparks, 1995; Lesaux & Siegel, 2003; Chiappe et al., 2002; Gottardo et al., 2001). In particular, PA is directly involved in the process of learning how to read and write. Which are then the most suitable didactic tools to help students in improving PA? Digital technologies seem to constitute effective means, proposing challenging activities, creating pseudo-real communicative scenarios and stimulating different sensorial channels at the same time. Even if similar tools have been developed for children with learning disabilities, it doesn’t exist yet, according to our best knowledge, a specific instrument for the study of Italian as a foreign language by non-impaired learners. Starting from the observation of a classroom of the Elementary School “Colegio Leonardo da Vinci” in Bogotà, the prototype of an app for training PA has been developed, specifically based on their linguistic needs, provided with examples of usage, exercises, explanations, and a series of indications

scholarly journals Behind the Exhibit Displaying Science and Technology at World's Fairs and Museums in the Twentieth Century

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Da Vinci ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
The United States ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
Science Museums ◽  
Public Display ◽  
Scientific Heritage ◽  
International Exhibitions

The latest in the Artefacts series, Behind the Exhibit examines scientific heritage and narratives behind public display of scientific artifacts in national and international exhibitions and science museums throughout the twentieth century. Developed from the Artefacts XX conference, convened 20–22 September 2015 at the Leonardo da Vinci National Museum of Science and Technology in Milan, during Expo Milan 2015, this volume brings together museum curators and historians of science and technology to present case studies from the United States, Europe, Russia, and Japan. What emerged is a study of the tension between basic science and technological applications, the multilayered role of history, the appearance and disappearance of artifacts, and the search for a balance between entertainment and education.

Replication of Internal Biological Surfaces

1972 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 308-309
Author(s):  
J. A. Nowell ◽  
J. Pangborn ◽  
W. S. Tyler
Keyword(s):  
Da Vinci ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
Rat Lung ◽  
Tubular Structures ◽  
Cerebral Ventricles ◽  
Internal Surfaces ◽  
Biological Surfaces ◽  
Dog Kidney ◽  
Lung And Kidney ◽  
Scanning Electron

Leonardo da Vinci in the 16th century, used injection replica techniques to study internal surfaces of the cerebral ventricles. Developments in replicating media have made it possible for modern morphologists to examine injection replicas of lung and kidney with the scanning electron microscope (SEM). Deeply concave surfaces and interrelationships to tubular structures are difficult to examine with the SEM. Injection replicas convert concavities to convexities and tubes to rods, overcoming these difficulties.Batson's plastic was injected into the renal artery of a horse kidney. Latex was injected into the pulmonary artery and cementex in the trachea of a cat. Following polymerization the tissues were removed by digestion in concentrated HCl. Slices of dog kidney were aldehyde fixed by immersion. Rat lung was aldehyde fixed by perfusion via the trachea at 30 cm H2O. Pieces of tissue 10 x 10 x 2 mm were critical point dried using CO2. Selected areas of replicas and tissues were coated with silver and gold and examined with the SEM.

The More You Say, the Less They Hear

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 159-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsbeth D. Asbeek Brusse ◽  
Marieke L. Fransen ◽  
Edith G. Smit
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Protection ◽  
Entertainment Education ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Attitude Measures ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms

Abstract. This study examined the effects of disclosure messages in entertainment-education (E-E) on attitudes toward hearing protection and attitude toward the source. In addition, the (mediating) role of the underlying mechanisms (i.e., transportation, identification, and counterarguing) was studied. In an experiment (N = 336), three different disclosure messages were compared with a no-disclosure condition. The results show that more explicit disclosure messages negatively affect transportation and identification and stimulate the generation of counterarguments. In addition, the more explicit disclosure messages affect both attitude measures via two of these processes (i.e., transportation and counterarguing). Less explicit disclosure messages do not have this effect. Implications of the findings are discussed.

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