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The Mind of Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci's creative process

How to approach problem-solving like da Vinci

The importance of curiosity and observation

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Da Vinci's limitations

He was defensive about his lack of formal education. He called himself a man without letters.
He had trouble with basic arithmetic operations.
His Latin skills were weak.
He might not have performed well in a modern schooling system. He might have been diagnosed with conditions such as autism spectrum disorder or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

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Leonardo da Vinci's meaning in our era

Each generation has interpreted Leonardo da Vinci, finding him remarkably modern.

We can consider Leonardo's meaning in our era. Leonardo's genius and symbol of the "universal man" stem from the breadth of his interests in the arts, science and technology. He discovered, among other th...

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A unified vision of nature's laws

Leonardo da Vinci’s science was grounded in the Aristotelian world. He developed a system of what he called the four powers of nature: movement, weight, force and percussion. While his ideas are archaic, he developed a coherent model for natural phenomena.

His ideas of the...

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Faith in experience

Leonardo da Vinci relied on his senses for a meaningful experience.

He wrote in his Treatise on Painting: “To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, firsthand experience which in its origins...

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Visalised knowledge

Leonardo da Vinci's passion for the sense of vision was extreme. He writes in his Paragone, "The eye is the window of the human body through which the soul views and enjoys the beauties of the world. Because of it, the soul is content in its human prison, and without it ...

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