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Lauren Minchella May 30, 2006 Honors English Ms. Penna Leonardo Da Vinci "- is it so bad then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson from "Self Reliance" Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 to Ser Piero, a notary, and Caterina, a peasant girl. Da Vinci thought outside the box. He was often misunderstood. He was excommunicated from the church, and brought to trial at court. He had a numerous amount of critics, yet his ideas were far ahead of his time. Leonardo's creativity and individuality led him to excel far beyond his peers. He excelled in art as well as in the sciences and engineering; these accomplishments made him one of the most famous men ever to have lived. At the age...

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