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"a beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not" ---Leonardo da Vinci
An excellent short summary (about 100 pages) of Leonardo. Covers both artistic and scientific contributions. Da Vinci is known today primarily for the rather small number of his art pieces which have been found, including the Mona Lisa and Last Supper. But it is not widely known that his real contribution is in the art of "learning" itself. He kept hidden thousands of pages of notes taken during his lifetime, some of which could have been viewed as heretical at the time, outlining theories, ideas, and observations that were conceptually well ahead of their time. Unfortunately these notebooks were not discovered until centuries after his death. His breadth of knowledge, particularly his understanding of the anatomy, is simply breathtaking. Truly the Renaissance Man.