Da Vinci - The Ideator

As the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death is commemorated this year, the artist’s notebooks are experiencing a renaissance of their own.  Although his paintings are far better known, Leonardo’s wealth of manuscripts and drawings lay bare the inner workings of his genius. His fertile mind—the range of hypotheses he tested, the intellectual, scientific, and philosophical journeys he launched, Leonardo’s subject matter soars into view: botany, geology, hydraulics, architecture, military engineering, costume design, geometry, cartography, optics, anatomy. He sketched to make sense of unknowns, probing the enigmas of the universe with ink, chalk, and silverpoint. Indeed, Leonardo was an ideator of the first order, and his notebooks reveal how much we still have to learn. Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/05/leonardo-da-vinci-artistic-brilliance-endures-500-years-after-death/