Anticipating the Future: Leonardo’s Unpublished Anatomical and Mathematical Observations (2020)
In 1895, H. G. Wells penned these words in his science-fiction novel The Time Machine . For Wells and for Early Modern writers, such as Thomas More (1478–1535), Francis Bacon (1561–1626) (discussed in other chapters), and Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673), publishing science fiction permitted the imaginings of a future, with new ideas and new technology. To these futurists, futurity was not just the future but rather a state of mind, an awareness of the still-to-come, the potential and excess of the not-yet-here. Subjects actively oriented themselves toward this utopic future. This mindset does not describe fifteenth-century polymath and artist
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