The book The Romance of Leonardo Da Vinci the Forerunner was written by author Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky Here you can read free online of The Romance of Leonardo Da Vinci the Forerunner book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Romance of Leonardo Da Vinci the Forerunner a good or bad book?
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'Tis a pear, with a protuberance like the nipple of a woman's breast. On this nipple, a mountain so high that its summit leans against the lunar sphere, lies the Earthly Paradise. * ' But, caro Guido, science . . . * ' Science ! ' cried the other contemptuously. * Know you, Messere, what Columbus says of science ? I will quote you his words in his Libro de las Profecias. He says : " Not mathematics, nor the charts of geographers, nor the argu- ments of reason, helped me to my deed, but solely t...he ti3 THE FORERUNNER prophecy of Isaiah touching a new heaven and a new earth. "' Here Guido fell silent, for at this hour began the nightly racking of his joints. He was carried to his bed; and Leonardo, left alone, entertained himself verifying those observations upon the Pole Star which had led to so singular a delusion ; and, in truth, he found errors so gross that he could not believe his eyes. * What ignorance ! ' he said to himself more than once ; * it would seem he has discovered the New World by chance, groping at random.
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