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The Florentine artist and investigator worked for courts such as the Sforza in Milan and served Cesare Borgia as a military engineer. His notebooks record studies of anatomy, mechanics, hydraulics, and drawing.
Political axes
Leonardo da Vinci leans further toward free market than 84% of the 473 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Control is where Leonardo da Vinci stands furthest from the rest.
On Power, Leonardo da Vinci sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
The closest among the 257 ideologies
Capitalism of the great industrialists such as Henry Ford, Rockefeller and Thomas Edison, exalting the factory, mass production, invention and the entrepreneur, with a work ethic, traditional family and minimal state interference.
Current that rejects modern democracy and egalitarianism and proposes replacing them with hierarchical, efficient governments run like companies by a sovereign, combining traditionalism and technology.
Current advocating a monarch who actually governs, as constitutional head of the executive or absolute sovereign, over a federation of states or regions with broad self-government, as in the German Empire of 1871, the United Arab Emirates, and Malaysia.
The most distant ideology
Anarcho-PacifismAnarchist39%
Pope from 1878 to 1903, Leo XIII founded Catholic social teaching with the encyclical Rerum Novarum, defending a just wage, workers' associations and private property against socialism and liberalism, and revived Thomism.
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A southern state settled by Azorean and other European immigrants, Santa Catarina has a high human development index, a diversified small- and medium-business economy, and a predominantly conservative electorate.
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A federation of Central European territories, the Holy Roman Empire gathered principalities and cities under an elected emperor and strong Church influence, marked by fragmented power and the autonomy of its members.
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