I have always loved art, and one of my biggest inspirations is Leonardo Da Vinci.  He was a painter, inventor, and engineer among other things
I've heard about him but don't really know much. Can you tell me more?
Well, he is credited with many inventions, such as the tank, the parachute and helicopter
really? I would never guess that! I thought he was just a painter@
, many historians and scholars regard Leonardo as the prime exemplar of the 'Universal Genius' or 'Renaissance Man', an individual of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination", and he is widely considered one of the most diversely talented individuals ever to have lived. According to art historian Helen Gardner, the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent in recorded history, and "his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, while the man himself mysterious and remote." Scholars interpret his view of
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