Birth name Leonardo di Ser Piero
Born April 15, 1452
Vinci, in the present day Province of Florence, Italy
Died May 2, 1519 (aged 67)
Amboise, Touraine (in present-day Indre-et-Loire, France)
Was an Italian polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer.
"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to sternresolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind"
