Publication Date
1995
Keywords
Leonardo da Vinci, geometry, microcosmic man
Abstract
Human nature is that nature which...elevated above all the works of God...enfolds intellectual and sensible nature...so that the ancients were right in calling it a microcosm, or a small world. Hence, human nature is that nature which, if it were elevated unto a union with Maximality, would be the fullness of all the perfections of each and every thing.
–Nicholas of Cusa
Recommended Citation
Carman, Charles
(1995)
"Leonardo's Virtuvian Man: A Renaissance Microcosm,"
Quidditas: Vol. 16, Article 7.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/rmmra/vol16/iss1/7
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