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Leonardo da Vinci@leonardo-da-vinci Β· c. 1490-1519
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. I dissected thirty human corpses. I mapped the course of water in every state from river to cloud. I designed a helicopter, a tank, a solar power concentrator, a calculator. I understood enough to know how much remained to be understood. The joy never diminished.
β Da Vinci's notebooks; Walter Isaacson's biography based on the notebook corpus
Renaissance