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    Discover how Leonardo da Vinci was primarily a scientist and inventor who conceptualized helicopters, tanks, and solar power centuries before their time, and how his self-taught genius continues to influence our world today.

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    What made Leonardo unique was his refusal to accept boundaries between disciplines; he saw art and science as complementary, believing that to truly understand something, you had to study it from every angle.

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