Author: Alona Caplan

You cannot be exposed to the strange chain of events around Walter Isaacson’s biography of Leonardo De Vinci without wondering about the strange relation of this book to Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. After all, it appears that the first supplied the idea and the inspiration to Leonardo De Vinci, while the latter supplied the further support, in terms of library, resources, translations and yes this little New York Times review of a book in which we must have taken not inconsiderable part. We cannot be cynical to the two sides, aside from the author, as you go to clean up his name in his doings. However, from the side of Steve Jobs, he does appear to admit, within and without the book, that he took what he has attributed to Steve Jobs’s saying about Leonardo De Vinci was the point of departure of this book as well.

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Chicago Press, 1996, and Chapter 5 in this collection. the distingushed histiorian is making some crucial mistakes regarding the bigorohical facts concerning da vinci. to begin with, it does not seem that he is a lefty, but using two hands. this is of course the most stupid thing that one could tell. after all, to … Continue reading The Journey Begins