TIL The quintessential renaissance man, Leonardo Da Vinci, never had the standard scholary education of his time. He only taught himself some latin, had no formal maths education until he was 40+ and didn't study the classics, thus traditional scholars scoffed at his observational scientific method

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci#Science_and_inventions
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