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Leonardo da Vinci was also a master of scouting between the close and the far. As an expert engineer he tackled real-world problems, some that were immediately relevant and some that qualified as science fiction in his day. At the applicable end, he knew that the locks on the waterways in Milan were hard to operate and prone to flooding. So he threw himself at the problem and generated a novel solution: he replaced the vertically - dropping gate with a hinged double-door that opened horizontally and provided a more watertight seal. It was a modest change that proved of lasting value. His basic design is still in use. ~ Page 167

. . . Leonardo da Vinci would persistently distrust his first solution to any problem -- suspicious that it was the result of overlearned routine -- and dig around for something better. He always worked to derail himself from his path of least resistance, to discover what else was hidden in the richness of his neural networks ~ Page 184



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Leonardo da Vinci drew constantly. He drew to see, he drew to think, he drew to create. Even his prodigious mind wasn’t large enough to imagine his phenomenal ideas; his hand had to put them before his eyes. Drawings could reveal the structure of things, and even more central to Leonardo’s thinking, drawing could reveal the action of things, how they work, what they could do. Static drawings could be active. He drew muscles and ligaments attached to bones and joints in human and other animals to determine how bodies move. He drew the branching of trees to learn how they grow and split and in so doing, discovered the proportional rule of branching. He drew the branching of arteries to learn how blood flows. He drew plans for multitude of devices, pumps and muscles instruments and flying machines, to work through their mechanics. He drew water, over and over, to see it and to understand how it swirled and churned. Vortices drew him in and he drew them. He realized that the drawing motions of his hand mimicked the motions he was trying to understand and used his hand to understand them. Lacking mathematics, his thinking, his thinking was visual and spatial, he reasoned from patterns and from and analogies of forms, the curls of hair and the swirls of water, a fetus enclosed in a womb and a seed enclosed in a shell. He drew and looked and thought and drew again. And again. Leonardo used drawing to explore and refine ideas as well as to create new ones. He was one of the first to intentionally drawing as an empirical method. Others have followed and continue to do so. - page 258 - Excerpt “Mind in Motion” - Barbara Tversky

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