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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: 75. Chapters: Leonardo da Vinci, Genius, Polymath, List of people who have been called "polymaths," Intellectual giftedness, List of fictional child prodigies, List of Renaissance men, List of music prodigies, List of child prodigies, List of Mensans, Sarah Chang, William James Sidis, Andriy Slyusarchuk, Savant syndrome, Eidetic memory, Twice exceptional, Illui, Cluster grouping, Mental calculator, Child prodigy, Sandrine Erdely-Sayo, Genetic Studies of Genius, Chess prodigy, Davidson Institute for Talent Development, Boris Sidis, Wizards Project, Gifted Rating Scales, Dorothea von Rodde-Schlozer, Summer Enrichment Program, Michael Kearney, Competent man, Edmund Thomas Clint, Adragon De Mello, Kieron Williamson, Pantomath, National Association for Gifted Children, Nur Amalina Che Bakri, Song Yoo-geun, Cognitive elite, Underachiever, Multipotentiality, Overachievement, Gifted-handicapped. 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 t...
