7 Fascinating Things to Learn From The Genius of Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452, in a small town called Vinci.
The birthplace of Vinci is a fort or fortified hill village and is located near the town of Empoli (about 30 kilometers west of Florence) in what is now the province of Florence, Tuscany region.

No one imagined that this little boy would one day take the scholarly world by storm with his endless curiosity, fascination, and inventiveness.

He is considered one of the most famous polymaths of all time.

I got my information out of Walter Isaacson's biography of Leonardo and will therefore cite a little from the book.

Right at the beginning, the author remarks on the great use-case of paper for storing information, rather than our tweets which probably won’t last over 500 years.

His mind is best revealed on the 7200 pages of notes and scribbles that miraculously survived to this day. There are estimates that he produced at least three times more than that, which were lost, unfortunately.

Leonardo could not afford to waste paper, so he crammed every inch of his pages with miscellaneous drawings and looking-glass jottings that seem random but provide glimpses of his mental leaps.

What made Leonardo a genius, what set him apart who are merely extraordinarily smart, was creativity, the ability to apply imagination to intellect. His facility for combining…