“The ball of snow when, as it rolls, it descends from the snowy mountains, increases in size as it falls.”

— Leonardo Da Vinci

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings

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Italian Renaissance polymath 1452–1519

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