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Leonardo Da Vinci : The Greatest Thinkers

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Leonardo da Vinci is one of the greatest thinkers in all of history. He has many skills and he has mastered everything from art, to science and engineering. He lived during a time filled with other brilliant people. The achievements that he has made in his lifetime were unimaginable and so advanced for his time period, that many of his ideas were not taken seriously until modern times.

Leonardo da Vinci was born in April 15, 1452 in the Republic of Florence. He was the illegitimate son of a Florentine legal notary and a peasant woman called Caterina. Leonardo da Vinci studied in the studio of a distinguished Florentine painter, Verrocchio. He had an informal education in Latin, geometry and mathematics. He spent most of his life working for Ludovico il Moro in Milan. During Leonardo da Vinci’s lifetime, his inventions, his "outstanding physical beauty", "infinite grace", "great strength and generosity", "regal spirit and tremendous breadth of mind" as described by Vasari, made other people very interested in his work. From September 1513 to 1516, Leonardo spent much of his time living in the Vatican in Rome where Raphael an Michelangelo were both working. Leonardo Died at Clos Luce, on May 2, 1519. Twenty years after his death, Francis I of France said that “There has never been another man born in the world who knew as much as Leonardo, not so much about painting, sculpture, and architecture, as that he was a very great philosopher.”

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