El “sueño” de Leonardo da Vincila construcción del quinto mathemata
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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ISSN: 0213-6252
Year of publication: 2021
Issue Title: Economía creativa. Efectos psicosociales de la pandemia
Issue: 107
Pages: 99-106
Type: Article
More publications in: Abaco: Revista de cultura y ciencias sociales
Abstract
The fifth centenary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci was commemorated all around the world throughout 2019. Da Vinci, a genius endowed with an impressive artistic talent, transcended the field of painting to permeate engineering, architecture, anatomy, palaeontology, botany, etc. In this article, a key aspect is analysed in the work of this Renaissance scientist that has gone unnoticed and that can be characterized as “Leonardo’s dream”, his lifelong illusion: the construction of mechanics as the fifth mathemata; the dream of the mathematization of the science of movement.