The Leonardo Type

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The Leonardo Type:

"There have been men in our history who have become well-known to us by virtue of their tool-inventing and tool-using capabilities; and their conceptualizing of tasks they could do-- tasks they have done on behalf of their fellow men. I will simply call this kind of man the Leonardo-type. He was a very comprehensive toolmaker, tool-conceiver, tool-user, and a large problem addresser and solver."

"In the middle of the 20th century Henry Ford may be identified as the great Leonardo-type, even though he would be absolutely astonished. He though t of his workas utterly prosaic, but he might then be thought of as having Lenardo-type conceptualization. And the idea was that from this point on the artist makes tools and the tools make the end-product, and this is mass production."

Citations

1. COMMITMENT TO HUMANITY, p. 32. May'70