Hamlet - Act 3 - Scene 1 : "I never gave you ought" or "I never gave you aught"

In this dialogue from Hamlet which comes right after the famous "To be or not to be" nothing is clear. Why Ophelia returns the letters? Are both of them just making a spectacle for the  "viewers" (Claudius and Polonius)? Is Hamlet saying: "I never gave you aught (anything)" or is he saying "I never gave you ought" (I never gave you what you deserved). She says "when givers prove unkind" - why she accuses him of  being unkind? Does Hamlet start a play of words and double-meaning  with words honest and fair ?

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The man who saved science

"Did Leonardo da Vinci come up with all of his ideas and inventions by himself or did he also borrow some of them from ancient scientists including those who lived 1,700 years before him."

Неплохой фильм про Леонардо, со слегка нестандартным подходом - пытается пытается показать, что он "стоял на плечах гигантов", а не был просто "гений среди удобрений". Пара имен мало известных инженеров, предшественников Леонардо из этого фильма: Roberto Valturio (1405–1475),  Mariano di Jacopo (1382 – c. 1453), called Taccola

"The designs of armaments contained in Valturio's work were copied by Leonardo da Vinci in his weapons projects proposed to Duke Ludovico il Moro in 1482 in Milan."
Это то письмо миланскому герцогу, где он описал, какой он крутой военный инженер, и в конце приписал - ну еще рисую немного.


(рисунки из книги Таккола)