Look at the world with amazing eyes.

 Look at the world with amazing eyes.


"On Saturday, April 15, 1452, at the third o'clock of the night (approximately 10 pm), my grandson, the son of my son Piero, was born. The child's name is Leonardo."


Leonardo da Vinci was born as an illegitimate child of Pierrot and Catherine of different social classes.


Leonardo lived mainly in the Da Vinci mansion with his grandfather Antonio and his grandmother, who loved his leisure activities.


The Italian Renaissance also named the Golden Age of his illegitimate sons. In particular, being born as illegitimate children by the ruling and aristocracy was never an obstacle, but the middle class did not so readily tolerate illegitimate children.


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There was also a positive side to these strict standards of society. The status of illegitimate children freed the free-spirited and imaginative young people, turning them into more creative people at a time when creativity became increasingly important.


The life of an illegitimate child was far more complicated than that of a simple stranger. An illegitimate child was in an ambiguous position.


Leonardo was both a member of a middle-class family and separated from it. Like many writers and artists, he grew up feeling part of the world but at the same time isolated.



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Another positive effect that illegitimate status had on Leonardo was that he was not sent to a Latin school. Promising professionals and merchants of the early Renaissance studied the classics and the humanities in Latin schools. Leonardo was mainly self-taught except for a little bit of math necessary for business at a place called 'Jusan School'. He called himself ignorant and took a defensive attitude. But at the same time, he was also proud of the fact that, because of his lack of formal education, he was able to become a disciple of experience and experimentation.


He left the signature 'Leonardo da Vinci, the disciple of experience'. This spirit of free thought prevented him from being bound by traditional thinking.


Thus Leonardo was able to distance himself from the old scholastic and medieval catechesis.


His propensity to challenge existing knowledge without yielding to authority led him to take an empirical approach to explore nature. It was a precursor to the scientific research method that Bacon and Galileo would develop a century later.


His research methods were rooted in experience, curiosity and the ability to continue to be amazed by natural phenomena that no one has noticed since childhood.

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