Blogpost 7: Man in Abstract

    Leonardo da Vinci was a very mysterious man. There's a lot of things we don't know about him. The way he think is simply impressive, so here are some weird stuff that I discovered as I search the internet.

    I read an article entitled "20 Things You Don't Know About... Leonardo da Vinci" by Alex Stone and Jason Stahl of discovermagazine.com. This article tells about the 20 weird stuff that we don't about Leonardo Da Vinci, but I will discuss only few things that caught my attention. The article says that the smile of Mona Lisa means she was secretly pregnant, in addition she was amused by the musician and clowns who entertained her while Leonardo painting her. Also researchers used a software called "face-recognition" to Mona Lisa's face, as a result it says that Mona Lisa is 83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearful, and 2% angry. The article also says that in December 2000 a skydiver named Adrian Nicholas landed in South Africa using a parachute that was designed by Leonardo. "He crushed intelligent design before anyone even thought of it.", says the author.

    I discovered a lot of thing about him that don't know before. I was totally amazed when I discover that the smile of Mona Lisa means she was pregnant. He contributed a lot of ideas that we often use in our generation.

    I also read an article entitled "The handedness of Leonardo da Vinci: a tale of the complexities of lateralisation." by McMasnus Ic and Drury H. of ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. The article tells about the handedness Leonardo da Vinci. His handedness is still controversial. It says that his drawing were drawn with the left hand, further more, some people says he was a left-handed as the result of an injury to his right hand. It also says the he showed almost no direction with handedness. The author says "This suggests that individual differences in handedness, and behavioural laterality in general, have a structural complexity which is not fully encompassed by simple measures of direction or degree of handedness."

    It is still not clear for me if Leonardo was a left-handed or right-handed. But for me, his handedness does not matter anymore. What important his he was able to give us his ideas clearly despite of his abstract thinking.