by M. W. Wollacott | Mar 7, 2022 | History, Leonardo da Vinci
Dietary advice is ten a penny at the moment. Scientific studies which cannot be replicated are taken as gospel until contradicted and every celebrity has some goopy idea or other. So it is no surprise some are going back to long dead greats to see what their diets...
by M. W. Wollacott | Mar 7, 2022 | History, Leonardo da Vinci
I’m a light sleeper – it takes a while to get to sleep and I’m woken up easily during the night. Plus I wake up at the time I was born – 3:15am most nights. If only I’d been born at 3:15pm! Like many people, I’ve often wondered how to make my sleep...
by M. W. Wollacott | Mar 7, 2022 | History, Leonardo da Vinci
As a child, I struggled with my writing. It was not just spelling, but writing in general. I am left-handed in a world of righties – copying others is difficult when you can’t do it their way. Plus, I constantly ran the risk of smudging my writing and getting...
by M. W. Wollacott | Mar 7, 2022 | Philosophy, Plato
When did you learn that a table is a table? Chances are it was when you were but a toddler. A parent no doubt told you that this was a table and that was a table, so your brain processed the information and created a notion of the table. Or did it? Do we put together...
by M. W. Wollacott | Mar 7, 2022 | Aristotle, Philosophy
In my previous piece on Plato’s theory of forms, I asked the question – how do we know a table is a table? As Plato’s most famous student, it is no surprise that Aristotle too had an opinion on Forms. What may surprise those new to Aristotle is that he rejected...
