Vincian

comparative more Vincian · superlative most Vincian

1. Of, from or relating to Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), Italian artist and polymath.

   Kenneth Clark did a study of Vincian machines in 1935.

   1991, Antonio Toscano, Interpreting the Italian Renaissance: Literary Perspectives, page 114

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   Some writings and titles in Spanish on the Vincian manuscripts still remind of that expatriation.

   1980, Carlo Zammattio, Augusto Marinoni, Anna Maria Brizio, Leonardo the Scientist, page 82

   Needham's way to catch the opposition has been to say "that Chinese science and technology remained until late times essentially Vincian, and that the Galilean break-through occurred only in the West.

   1994, H. Floris Cohen, The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry, page 445

   Synonyms: da Vincian