Idle musings

    A TRIBUTE TO LEONARDO DA VINCI     A month ago, I came across a remarkable presentation in SlideShare.net, available at http://www.slideshare.net/bunky34/design-like-davinci-sxsw-2013 for reference. The presentation specifies how Leonardo Da Vinci's design habits can be adopted even today and is readable, if only in that context. To me, it revealed a lot more about Da Vinci himself.     I shall explain why I am curious about Da Vinci now :     Like most others, I knew about his most famous painting Mona Lisa and Dan Brown's book "The Da Vinci Code" provided further insight into Da Vinci's personality. In school, a teacher I respect had spoken of two geniuses : the first was Mendeleef (or Mendeleev, as Google prompts). Mendeleev was a chemist who brought structure into the organization of elements. Da Vinci was the second genius that my teacher referred to and I remember him telling us that Da Vinci could draw a perfect...