I've been reading this cool book about da Vinci.
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (14/15 April 14522 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci ( ), was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance whose areas of interest included invention, drawing, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time, despite perhaps only 15 of his paintings having survived.
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- Leonardo da Vinci is said to have possessed photographic memory.
- Swami Vivekananda is believed to have eidetic memory as he could memorize a book just by going through it for a single time.
- The mathematician John von Neumann was able to memorize a column of the phone book at a single glance. Herman Goldstine wrote about him: "One of his remarkable abilities was his power of absolute recall. As far as I could tell, von Neumann was able on once reading a book or article