“You will perhaps say that the sinews and muscles of a bird are incomparably more powerful than those of a man… But the reply to this is that such great strength gives it a reserve of power beyond what it ordinarily uses…”

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XVII Flight

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Italian Renaissance polymath 1452–1519

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