I think Leonardo da Vinci is the most creative person ever alive.
He left us over 7000 pages of sketches and notes that 500 yrs later, historians yet to decode.
6 times Da Vinci predicted and invented the future:
1/ Da Vinci's anatomical discoveries...
• First to describe the heart as a 4-chambered muscle
• Recognized coronary artery disease 150 years before physicians
He once dissected 30+ cadavers to understand anatomy:
2/ The Last Supper was a math puzzle for future mathematicians.
Da Vinci used perspective to draw focus to Christ:
All lines in the painting converge at a single vanishing point behind Jesus' right temple.
3/ Da Vinci revolutionized painting techniques through chemistry:
• Created custom pigments with 5% beeswax
• Experimented with oil paints (new at the time)
Mona Lisa's eyes was Da Vinci's signature painting technique, sfumato in action. Art and optics, perfectly merged.
4/ Da Vinci had a visionary engineer mind:
• Designed a proto-helicopter ("Aerial Screw")
• Invented the modern mitered canal lock
• Sketched a parachute (successfully tested 500 YEARS later!)
Da Vinci is left handed and wrote backwards and can only be read in a mirror...
5/ Da Vinci predicted Earthshine:
He figured this out when most people didn't even know Earth orbited the sun.
He described the faint glow on the dark part of a crescent moon a sunlight reflecting off Earth onto the moon.
6/ Da Vinci's legacy is filled with thousands of pages of unpublished notes.
Some say his secrecy a lost to humanity.
