Leonardo da Vinci Would Still be Brilliant But Get on People’s Nerves
“Every little thing or idea I would come up with, here comes Leo and ‘only’ improves it by 7000 times… And his status updates are getting a bit annoying too; Leonardo is now friends with, Botticelli, Mona Lisa and 3.14 others. ‘Check out this painting I did of my Boo.’, ‘Like, if you want me to make a birdmachine.’, ‘Looking for sponsors, I have some things drawn that just might work PM for details.’… I’m done with this guy, like who’s going to remember any of his brainfarts in a few hundred years… /Unfriend.” This opinionated rant about how Leonardo da Vinci is no doubt a consequence of the fact that he achieved so much it seems unreal that one person could do so much in one lifetime.
Leonardo da Vinci (April 1452 – May 1519) is, without a doubt, one of the greatest minds in world history. His natural genius crossed so many disciplines that he epitomized the term “Renaissance man.” Today he remains best known for his art, including two paintings that remain among the world’s most famous and admired, Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Art, da Vinci believed, was indisputably connected with science and nature. And he didn’t sleep on his scientific studies either. As an engineer, Leonardo conceived ideas vastly ahead of his own time, conceptually inventing the parachute, the helicopter, an armored fighting vehicle, the use of concentrated solar power, a calculator, a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics and the double hull.