A LESSON FROM THE LIFE OF LEONARDO DA VINCI ABOUT HOW OBSERVING THE WORLD AROUND YOU CAN LEAD TO CREATIVE BREAKTHROUGHS.
Beginning as a painter before he became a sculptor, an engineer, an anatomist, and a painter again, da Vinci was long trained in experiencing and appreciating the natural world--thus the power of his representations. His core skill and greatest passion was observation. This enthusiasm informed all his work
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His emphasis on observation was so great that he would reconceive the way we perceive perception. As the facing page of his notebook shows, he looked closely at the looking itself: his understanding of the way light alights upon the eye pushed against the prevailing theories of optics passed down in the Platonic tradition and held by his contemporaries. Whereas the old way saw the eye as sending a beam of vision into the world, da Vinci saw the eye as something that received light, as illustrated here.
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