The guy had a bunch of great ideas because he did things like dissecting hundreds of bodies, studied and analyzed and drew what he learned so other people could

The guy had a bunch of great ideas because he did things like dissecting hundreds of bodies, studied and analyzed and drew what he learned so other people could benefit from that. He was a master painter that worked all the time. Most engineering ideas of Da Vinci were shit precisely because he never executed them. But he was a great illustrator.