Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"电子书

Thoughts on Art and Life

INTRODUCTION

I: THOUGHTS ON LIFE

Of the Works of Leonardo

His Thirst after Knowledge

Leonardo's Studies

Vain Knowledge

Value of Knowledge

On his Contemners

On the Vulgar

Knowledge the supreme Good

Life and Wisdom

Praise of Knowledge

The World

The Beauty of Life

Fruitless Study

In Praise of Truth

Versus Humanists

Authority

On Commentators

Experience

Experience never Errs

Origin of Knowledge

Testimony of the Senses

Judgement prone to Error

Intelligence of Animals

Infinity incomprehensible

Insoluble Questions

Beauty of Nature's Inventions

Completeness in Knowledge

Nature

Law of Necessity

Of Lightning in the Clouds

The Human Eye

Universal Law

Nature Variable and Infinite.

Light

Nature

Life's Philosophy

The Senses and the Soul

Of Sensation

Automatic Movements

Intellect

Of the Senses

Time

On the Human Body

The Experimental Method

Of Navigation below the Waters

Of Physiognomy

Of Pain

Why Plants do not feel Pain

Fear

Body and Soul

Memory

Spirit

Sense and Reason

Flight of Time

Illusions

Virtuous Life

Sleep and Death

Life

Time the Destroyer

On Fault-finders

Prayer

Patience

Advice to a Speaker

Advice

Proverbs

Truth

Ingratitude

Physiological Inferiority of Man

Man's Ethical Inferiority

Man in the Animal World

Fragment of a Letter 120.

Giacomo of Pupil of Leonardo

Pleasure and Pain

Brain and Soul

Of the Eye

The Eye in Animal Life

Ascension of Monte Rosa

Prophecies

II: THOUGHTS ON ART

Painting declines when aloof from Nature

Its Origin

Defence of Painting

Painting

Painting excels all the Works of Man

Painting creates Reality

The Painter goes to Nature

Superiority of Painting to Philosophy

Painting & Poetry

Painting is Mute Poetry

Painting is Mute Poetry

The Impression of Painting

Poet and Painter

King Matthias & the Poet

Value of the Visible Universe

Poet and Painter

Music the Sister of Painting

Painting & Music

Painter and Musician

Poet Painter and Musician

Painting a second Creation

The Painter Lord of All

Painting and Nature

Painting & Sculpture

To the Painter

Counsels

The Painter in his Studio

Advice to the Painter

Precepts

Theory and Practice

Course of Study

Perspective & Mathematics

Of the Method of Learning

Again of the Method of Learning

Counsel to the Painter

On Anatomy

On Study

On judging Pictures

Advice to the Painter

The Painter and the Mirror

The Painter's Mind

The Variety of Nature

Mind and Expression

The Dumb Man guides the Painter

Advice to the Painter

Power of Expression in Painting

Landscapes

Vegetation of a Hill

How to represent Night

How to represent Storm

How to describe a Battle

Envy

Fame

The Expressive Picture

The Ages of Man

Notes on the Last Supper

III: THOUGHTS ON SCIENCE

Necessity of Experience in Science

Theory and Practice

Certainty of Mathematics

Of Science

From Leonardo's Dictionary

Definition of Science

True Science based on the Testimony of the Senses

Mechanics

Mechanics and Experience

Reason and Experience

Effects correspond to the Force of their Cause

Of Force

Origin of Force

Aspects of Force

Of Inertia

Can Man imitate a Bird's Flight?

Of Inertia

Transmission of Motion

Matter is Inert

Conception of Energy

In Praise of the Sun

The Sun's Heat

Rays of the Sun

Light of the Stars

On the Nature of the Moon

On the Harmony of the Spheres

The Earth appears a Star

The Earth a Star

To prove the Earth a Star

Earth not the Center of Universe

Experience the Basis of Science

Water is the Blood of the World

Water on Mountains

On the Water of Rivers

Transformations in Past and Future

On the Earth's Vibration

Nature's Law

Cause discovered by Effect

Repetition of Experiment

Example of preceding Rule

Necessity of Analysis

Vision

Unconscious Reasoning

The Eye

Water surrounding the Globe Spherical

On the Law of Gravity

Phenomena governed by Mechanical Laws

Heat the Vital Principle

Against those desiring to correct Nature

Of Trees

The Leaves of Plants

From Known to Unknown

On the Flight of Birds

On the Structure of Wings

On a Fossil Fish

We live by Others' Death

Against Doctors

Against the Seekers of Perpetual Motion

Against Occult Sciences

Of Astrology

Against Alchemists

Against Necromancy

Deceptiveness of the Senses

On the Conception of Nothingness

On Spirits

Has the Spirit a Body?

Can the Spirit speak?

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE AND TABLE OF REFERENCES

Table of References