Art or Science

If I can choose when and where to be born (I am not complaining about my mom), it will not be hard to me. Even though 18-19th century Britain is very competitive with some big names such as Charles Darwin, Adam Smith, Issac Newton, I will still pick the renaissance 1500, Italy. Raphael, Michelangelo and, Leonardo da Vinci!!! Yes!!! Below is from WIKI.

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci ( pronunciation (help·info)) (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519, Old Style) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination".

When I mentioned Leonardo, what’s the first image jumps into your mind? To me, it is Mona Lisa. She is so famous that she has her own spot on wiki.

Couple days ago, NPR, 1 of my favorite radio station discussed a very interesting topic,
Here is the Leonardo's To-Do List

 

Thank god. Check this guy’s list. What a jumble! Cannons, wall construction, studying the sun, ice skating in Flanders, optics, and that oh-so-casual, "Draw Milan." It's like his mind could wander off in any direction at any time.

To traders, another master piece should not be ignored. Very frequently I see people debating whether trading is science or art. Da Vinci gave us the answer, there is no mutually exclusive polarities between the sciences and the arts. Vitruvian Man is a perfect example.

Fibonacci, golden ratio, harmonic numbers, all things together, we have this mater piece.

Here is my right brain practice by applying left brain technique. Happy Thanksgiving.

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