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Leonardo was born to Caterina and Ser Piero the morning of April 15, 1452. In the village of Vinci, where by the age of five Leonardo was living with his grandfather and father. While his mother lived on a farm with her new husband Accattabriga di Piero del Vacca. They moved to a new house in Vinci when his grandfather died in 1469, Leonardo was only seventeen. Self- taught, Leonardo would often stump his own teachers with arithmetic questions, but was considered an outsider. He studied observations of nature, rather than platonic idols of Florence. Leonardo was left handed, and wrote from right to left creating his famous mirror writing. Soon after, he learned how to paint and d