What would the world expect of an illegitimate child? Of course tyranny and an explicit tongue which would make the world around him queer with an uneasy feeling. But all this was just till the day a person named Leonardo Da Vinci was born. Yes, Da Vinci was the illegitimate child of a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina, at Vinci in the region of Florence. Da Vinci was a mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. In short, he was a polymath with his interests and talents spread over such a wide domain that he is credited to the title of being one of the most versatile person to have ever lived. With such a wide talent base, he was such a mystery to the world around him that he was said to have something superhuman about him. Things about him were a mystery. From the first prototype of a car to the first flying machine, he was the creator of almost all modern day inventions. The only force which withheld him from implementing all these prototypes was perhaps the fact that his life span was too short for all these things to take shape. 67years is indeed a short time for a man of his stature!
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