“There will be many which will increase in their destruction.”

— Leonardo Da Vinci

"The Ball of Snow rolling over Snow"
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings

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Italian Renaissance polymath 1452–1519

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