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The Genius of Leonardo Da Vinci, born 572 years ago on April 15, 1452 - thread 🧵 1. Château de La Rochefoucauld's staircase https://t.co/0rsPpHuF2G

In collecting such a medley of ideas, Leonardo was following a practice that had become popular in Renaissance Italy of keeping a commonplace and sketch book, known as a zibaldone. But in their content, Leonardo’s were like nothing the world had ever, or has ever, seen. His notebooks have been rightly called “the most astonishing testament to the

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The handwriting of famous authors - thread 🧵 1. Fyodor Dostoevsky's manuscript draft of The Brothers Karamazov https://t.co/G7o180FEf9