On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Guenter Wildgruber <gwildgru...@ymail.com> wrote:
> In the early middle ages it was the church-builders, which advanced the > art of empirical construction of large buildings by trial and error. Lots > of churches had to be repaired or collapsed altogether. > Those 'geniuses' are not known by name but their deeds and their various > inventions like the rope-triangle with three knots, one of the most > impressive inventions ever in the construction of gothic churches. > Plus the proper identification of construction materials. > Those were definitely not 'Yeomen'. > And the construction of large buildings was definitely not a scientific revolution. > Two examples to the contrary of the 'Yeomen' view: > a) Paracelsus: The founder of modern medicine, was mainly self-educated, > and his main trait was a fierce empiricism combined with a humanist > impulse: to effectively heal. > Paracelsus whose motto was: "Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself." What irony you would chose this man as a counter example tothe 'Yeoman' view. b) Leonardo: Apart from his genius, one has to mention, that his mother > was a slave, married to an establishment figure, a notary. > Leonardo prostituted himself to the elite, by devising various advanced > weapon-devices. > Virtually any means of acquiring financial independence will be subject to characterization as "prostitution". The main question is: To what degree does it impinge on one's individual integrity? It is from individual integrity that springs the fruits of a coherent mind.
