The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 11, 1937, Page 15

: i ; ] CHIGHLIGH: of HISTORY SEARCHING THROUGH HisToRyY FOR A MAN WHO COULP QUALIFY FOR THE- DISTINC- TION OF BEING THE MOST | COMPREHENSIVE GENIUS OF ANY AGE, THE LAURELS \. SEEM TO GO WITHOUT QUESTION \ TO THAT REMARKABLY GIFTEP ITALIAN, LEONARDO DA VINCI. i@ ANDoF ARDOY WRITINGS IT WAS W SAID THAT NO MAN COULD SAYAS MUCH IN SOFEW WORDYS, HE ALSO BECAME THE LEADING SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATOR OF HIS DAY. B LEONARDO WA S REGARDED BY HIS ADMIRING CONTEMPORARIE S AS ONE DIVINELY ENDOWED,FOR TO HIS STRIKING GOOD LOOKS, GRACE, STRENGTH AND WINNING CHARM WAS ADDED THE MOST COLOSSAL INTELLECT OF HIS TIME o = RANATIN N - JuTHE SERVICE OF HIS NOTED PATRONS, LORENZO DE MEDICI AND LoDOVICO SFORZA , HE APPLIED MIS VERSATILE GENIUS OVER A WIDE RANGE OF ACTIVITIES, TOO NUMEROL'S TO MENTION, FROM CASTING BRONZE STATUARY TO PLANNING IRRIGATION PROJECTS. THiS GREAT MAN MASTERED EVERY SUBJECT OR SCIENCE TO WHICH HE TURNED HIS ATTENTION. EARLY IN HIS CAREER HE WAS A MILITARY ENGINEER , DESIGNING IMPREGNABLE FORTRESSES, IN- VENTING THE FIRST "TANIL" aND - VAPORS FOR OFFENSE AGAINST THE ENEMY “ (POISON GAS ? HE DEVOTED MUCH TIME TO ASTRONOMY, NOTED? THE ANNUAL MOTION OF THE EARTH, AND SOME OF HIS OBSERVATIONS ON THE SOLAR SYSTEM ANTICIPATED THE DISCOVERIES OF GALILEO, KEPLER AND? COPERNICUS.| =3 L OF THE OLD MASTERYS, (/4 | GREATEST FAME- * OF COURSE, Al RESTS UPON HIS ¢ | GENIUS AS A PAINTER, RANKING WITH Biaica i MICHELANGELO %, AND RAFAEL AS T \A | THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS # f fi | His PICTURES E%‘ L WOULD GUARANTEE T HIM IMMORTAL GLORY. @2/ MR GURTON'S NEEDLE- | MOST UPROARIOUS OF EARLY ENGLISH COMEDIE-S, FIRST PRESENTED IN 1566, AND INTRODUCING DRINKING SONGS THAT ARE STILL SUNG, WAS 5 WRITTEN BY THE- BisHOP OF BATH / ©. 1937 7 Fercssr— ANS T @:c usE oF THE- MILITARY HELIOGRAPH (SuUN TELEGRAPH) DATE § BACK TO ANCIENT GREEK WARRIORS WHO USEVP, THEIR SHIELDS TO COMMUNICATE WITH F22 DISTANT COMRADES ...& LATER LIFE LEONARDO BECAME THE MOST BRILLIANT ORNAMENT OF THE COURT OF FraNCIS 1 OF FRANCE. HE DIED IN 1519, AND IT SEEMED BUT FIT- TING THAT THIS GREAT GENIUS SHOULD DIE 1N A ROYAL PALACE (FONTAINEBLEAL) AND IN THE ARMS OF AKING ......... . @ -2ouchouT THE AGES AND LP UNTIL COMPARATIVELY MODERN TIMES PIRACY WAS THE SCOURGE OF SEA BORNE- COMMERCE. THE ANCIENT SEAS SWARMED wWiTH CORSAIRS, AND NO MERCHANTMAN ONCE OUT OF PORT WAS SAFE FROM ATTACK -.--CERTAIN MARI- TIME STATES DERIVED THEIR REVENUES FROM THE SPOILS OF PIRACY; MANY RULER S WINKED AT THE PRACTISE , AN OFTEN COMMERCIAL CITIES SENT OUT PIRATES TO PREY ON THEIR TRADE RIVALS