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Leonardo da Vinci
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Painting & Drawing · Art Movements & Galleries · Sculpture & Installation

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I thought I was learning to live
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I wrote that the Sun does not move
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Painting is a science of anatomy, light and landscape

I gathered my notes on anatomy, light and landscape as material for a series of treatises, so that painting could be taught as a science built on the study of nature.

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Describe a thing exactly before you explain it

My science works by observation: I try to understand a phenomenon by describing and depicting it in the utmost detail, rather than leading with experiments or theory.

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I stated the laws of sliding friction in 1493

Studying perpetual motion, I concluded it was impossible and in 1493 wrote down laws of sliding friction in my notebooks, two centuries before Guillaume Amontons rediscovered them in 1699.

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Leonardo da Vinci

I work as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor and architect, and I keep notebooks that join art and science across anatomy, astronomy, botany, cartography and painting.

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