Must The Sun Set On The West?
Must The Sun Set On The West? Ep3 - The Decline from Reason to Mysticism
Season 1, Episode 3 • Educational
From Da Vinci to Dan Brown: The Decline from Reason to Mysticism
For 500 years, scholars recognized Leonardo da Vinci as a quintessential Renaissance man: a man of reason. Now novelist Dan Brown has fictionalized da Vinci into a promoter of non-rational sexual mysticism.
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