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Posted by: Samuel Day Fassbinder ( Pomona Valley Greens, USA ) on October 12, 1997 at 18:23:03:

In Reply to: Focusing on Da Vinci posted by Quincunx on October 11, 1997 at 20:49:00:

: Leonardo da Vinci wasn't alive during the time of what we know as modern capitalism.As a matter of fact,for much of his life,he was sponsored by the Medici family so maybe you can put him on a list of socialist welfare bums.I don't think he would care.

And didn't da Vinci dig up recently-dead corpses from the graveyards to find out how to draw anatomy? Hardly the sort of behavior one would expect from an investment banker, or anyone whose primary interest was what economist Robert Heilbroner calls the "capitalist drive"...




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