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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Leonardo da Vinci, Marcello Malpighi, Camillo Golgi, Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Mondino de Liuzzi, Hieronymus Fabricius, Antonio Scarpa, Jacopo Berengario da Carpi, Ruggero Oddi, Gabriele Falloppio, Realdo Colombo, Filippo Pacini, Bartolomeo Eustachi, Bartolomeo Panizza, Giulio Bizzozero, Lorenzo Bellini, Julius Caesar Aranzi, Bernardino Genga, Alessandra Giliani, Fortunato of Brescia, Leopoldo Marco Antonio Caldani, Carlo Ruini, Filippo Civinini, Angelo Ruffini, Giovanni Domenico Santorini, Filippo de Filippi, Constantio Varoli, Marcantonio della Torre, Atto Tigri, William of Saliceto, Richiardi Sebastiano, Gaspare Aselli, Stefano delle Chiaje, Antonio Pacchioni, Niccolo Massa, Giovanni Filippo. Excerpt: Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (.)) (April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination." He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. According to art historian Helen Gardner, the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent and "his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote." Marco Rosci points out, however, that while there is much speculation about Leonardo, his vision of the world is essentially logical rather than mysterious, and that the empirical methods he employed were unusual for his time. Born out of wedlock to a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina, at Vinci in the region of Florence, Leonardo was educated in the studio of the renowned...
