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  1. Leonardo Da Vinci

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    Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. Often described as the archetypal Renaissance man, his genius perhaps lay more in the sheer breadth of his curiosity than in the completion of any single discipline, though his surviving output remains highly influential. He is widely considered one of the m…