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From: Michael Vik
Date: 10/19/2003
Time: 2:16:12 PM
Remote Name: 199.44.215.199
I think Da Vinci was one of the world's first modern scientists, but I am not sure he was the first. He liked many different arts and sciences, and he even composed a journal in which he detailed an intricate analysis of the anatomy of the human body and plans for an airplane. I acknowledge he was ahead of his time. But scientists before him unknowingly (and some, knowingly) experimented with gravity, magnetism, and the science of navigation at sea. So I don't know if Leonardo was the world's first scientist. Any opinions?