Father Leonardo's Mirrors

Josh Geller · 20 Aug 2003, 02:21 · from urth-v0308.mbox · original

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From: Josh Geller <brunians at brunians.org>
Subject: (urth) Father Leonardo's Mirrors
Date: 19 Aug 2003 19:21:00 -0700
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I have this book entitled 'The Labyrinth - Symbol Of Fear, Rebirth And
Liberation', Shambhala 1997, ISBN 1-57062-195-0. It is not, in my
opinion, a great book. It is translated from the German of Helmut
Jaskolski, a modern pedagogue who lives near Cologne. It has a lot of
nice pictures. and although I cannot say much that is true and
kind about Herr Prof Dr Jaskolski's understanding of his complex and=20
ancient subject, on page 87, apropos of not much, we find the=20
following:

An invention of Leonardo Da Vinci, which he sketched with a pen under=20
the heading "mirror"... He was not yet technically capable of realizing
this invention [no evidence is adduced to back up this, in my opinion
probably false, statement - JG], but his explanation of it was as
follows: "If you make eight flat surfaces, each one two cubits long and
three cubits high..., and arrange them in a circle so that they form an
octagon with a circumference of sixteen cubits and a diameter of five
cubits, then a man inside can see himself infinitely from all sides."

Leonardo's drawing is reproduced on page 88.

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