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MAR 01, 2019
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LEARNING NEVER EXHAUSTS THE MIND
“The smallest feline is a masterpiece” — Leonardo da Vinci.
The term polymath defines “someone whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas” and many scholars regard Leonardo da Vinci as the prime example of a “Universal Genius”. Certainly he is widely considered to be one of the most diversely talented individuals to have ever lived, a virtuoso who was equally at home with both science and art in many different forms — whether that be music or mathematics, architecture or astronomy, palaeontology or painting, or any number of other disciplines. The man seems to have been almost superhuman in his abilities, and the headline to this editorial — attributed to him — embodies his attitude that one can never have too much learning.
Of course Leonardo is nowadays best known for his art — notably the Mona Lisa, perhaps the world’s most famous portrait — but there is much more, and at least one surviving sketch, showing cats in various realistic poses, suggests that he was both fascinated by the feline form and had studied it in some depth. Which brings us to this issue of Veterinary Focus, for which the above quote from Leonardo seems more than apt. We cannot promise that the reader can claim to be a polymath by simply studying the journal, but hopefully it offers both the art and science of veterinary medicine as it relates to kittens and young cats.
Ewan McNEILL
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(2020) “Editorial”, Kittens and Young Cats - Veterinary Focus - Vol. 29(1), Mar. 2019. Available at: https://www.ivis.org/library/veterinary-focus/kittens-and-young-cats-veterinary-focus-vol-291-mar-2019/editorial (Accessed: 24 September 2023).
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