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horseless carriages, submarines and self-propelling ships Both Botticelli and Ghirlandaio were mentors to from the same Islamic source that later inspired Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci. He studied the optics of Plato and By realising that Roger Bacon's knowledge of Platonic the upgrading of Plato's optics by Islamic scholars. optics was generally superior to Leonardo's, the Unlike da Vinci, Roger Bacon agreed with Al-Haytham, | Science-Art Research Centre, in collaboration with a history's Father of Optics, that the eye could not be the cancer research team at the University of Sydney in 1986, source of all knowledge—an erroneous idea of reality | succeeded in modifying the optical key to Leonardo da that René Descartes and Sir Francis Bacon, the Vinci's Theory of Knowledge. This discovery also Renaissance author and Father of Inductive Reasoning, corrected the optics understanding of René Descartes, Sir used to usher in the age of industrial entropic Francis Bacon, Lord Russell, Immanuel Kant, Alber’ materialism. In America, Thomas Jefferson, inspired by Einstein and other scientists who considered Al- Sir Francis Bacon's vision of a great Empire of Liberty | Haitham's optics as being industrially impractical. The based upon all knowledge originating from the eye, | Science-Art Research Centre's correction to the crucia depicted the concept on the Great Seal optics key was published in a of the United States. Science-Art book launched in Los Cosimo de’ Medici, with the help of Angeles in 1989 under the auspices o Sultan Mehmed II, re-established The Thalians Mental Health Center in Plato's Academy in Florence during the Hollywood, California. 15th contury. Medici appointed Unlike da Vinci, In 1991, the Nobel Prize in Physics Marsilio Ficino as its manager. Ficino was awarded to Pierre-Gilles de wrote about the Platonic love Roger Bacon Gennes for his theories about liquid associated with the Music of the agreed with crystal optics. In the following year, Spheres influencing the atoms of the the vast new science and technology soul. He carefully avoided serious Al-Haytham, predicted by the Science—Art Centre's charges of heresy by placing eminent history's Father of correction of da Vinci's work was Christian figures into his writings and 9 discovered. The principal discoverer, paintings associated with the new Optics, that the Professor Barry Ninham of the Panic Academy Two 235 aw eye COULd not be py stan National Ure Medici that survived the Great the source of all Chair of Chemistry in Florence, Burning, instigated by e __ wrote that the Centre's work Christian monk Savarola, knowledge id encompassed a revolution of an erroneous Idea of reality... illustrated Ficino's cunning. thought as important to science In 1480, Botticelli was and society as the Copernican commissioned to paint e and Newtonian revolutions. portrait St Augustine in His Study, in which a book is depicted opened at a page displaying Pythagorean mathematics. Alongside the written formulae is an instrument really the Man of the Renaissance or observing celestial movement. at all because he was unable to St Augustine is shown gazing directly at an armillary | comprehend the life-energy basis of Plato's spiritual sphere, used to calculate data relevant to Pythagoras’ _ optical engineering principles. He had attempted to Music of the Spheres. The saint's halo, accepted at that | develop the relevant optics for several years, then ime as representing the consciousness of the soul, upon __ reverted to what Plato had referred to as the engineering close examination has a spherical bookstud within its practices of a barbarian. Conflicting Life-Science Ideas Leonardo da Vinci was certainly a great genius, but he was not orbit, depicting Ficino's atom of the soul responding to On the other hand, Sir Isaac Newton was a genuine he Music of the Spheres. Renaissance Man—as his unpublished papers, At the same time that Botticelli was commissioned to discovered last century, reveal. His certain conviction paint St Augustine's portrait, Ghirlandaio was hat "a more profound natural philosophy exists to commissioned to paint a portrait of Augustine's close balance the mechanical description of the Universe” is colleague, St Jerome. Again, with careful examination, based upon the same physics principles that upheld the erome's halo in St Jerome in His Study can be seen to have ost Classical Greek era's science of life—and they are a spherical bookstud placed into its orbit, demonstrating now at the cutting edge of fractal logic quantum biology. hat Botticelli's depiction of the atom of the soul The early years of the 20th century were marked by the associated with the Music of the Spheres was not aforesaid Bertrand Russell's horrific acquiescence in 1903 coincidental. © enslavement by the second law of thermodynamics, agreed with Al-Haytham, history's Father of Optics, that the eye could not be the source of all In of reality... 58 * NEXUS Unlike da Vinci, Roger Bacon knowledge— an erroneous idea FEBRUARY - MARCH 2011 www.nexusmagazine.com