Royal Institution "The scientific mind of Leonardo Da Vinci"

This livestream from the Royal Institution of Great Britain invites you to join the world's foremost expert on Da Vinci, Martin Kemp, who explores what made the great thinker unique.

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https://www.rigb.org/whats-on/scientific-mind-leonardo-da-vinci

SUMMARY
Da Vinci expert Martin Kemp explores why Leonardo da Vinci's revolutionary thinking remains startlingly relevant today. Discover how Leonardo saw humanity as integral to nature's design, viewing the human body as a "lesser world" mirroring the cosmos. Through his observations spanning anatomy, geology, optics, and engineering, we'll explore how he pioneered biomimicry, developed an "optics of uncertainty" that prefigures modern physics, and created the iconic Vitruvian Man. Unlike today's compartmentalised knowledge, Leonardo approached learning as a unified whole – knowledge as a branching tree where each discovery illuminated the entire forest. His "lateral seeing" and integration of art with science offer profound lessons for our complex 21st-century world, showing how refusing to separate disciplines might unlock our interconnected challenges.

This talk is part of the finale of the Polymath Festival, curated by the DaVinci Network.

TIMING
The livestream will open at 6.55pm and the Discourse will start promptly at 7.00pm.

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