Leonardo da Vinci - ISTP ?

[Usurper]

So it seems that on most sites Leonardo gets typed as an INTP, despite him having written down some abstract thoughts, his main talents and interests lay in anatomy, engineering, painting, mechanical etc stuff.
This is a quote from wikipedia

Leonardo's approach to science was an observational one: he tried to understand a phenomenon by describing and depicting it in utmost detail, and did not emphasize experiments or theoretical explanation

Sounds very Sensor-ish to me, what do you think ?

 

[Speed Gavroche]

ENTP.

Exploring in detail is Si, and observation is the P.

 

[Jaq]

P without a doubt, T? Yeah sure why not? N? Meh debateable E / i? Not going to agure there as I have no idea about the personal life of learnado.

 

[redcheerio]

I've seen him typed as ENTP on a few sites, which seems fitting to me.

I can see E because I read that he loved to party. The fact that he had multiple intellectual interests fits ENTP. ENTPs can appear introverted sometimes, and can enjoy spending more time alone than most extroverts.

 

[wolfy]

I can see how he could be istp. I'll have to find some interviews on youtube.

 

[You]

Google: Charlie Rose & Leonardo Da Vinci. I'm sure you'll find some enlightening interviews.

 

[wolfy]

Google: Charlie Rose & Leonardo Da Vinci. I'm sure you'll find some enlightening interviews.

Thanks, they were enlightening. I especially liked the one where Rose spilt coffee on Da Vinci's notebook. Whoops. An obvious istp from what I can gather.

 

[RaptorWizard]

If you look at Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks, you see that he was a man of endless details, observations, and experiments, as well as being very mechanical in nature. He was a dreamer, but also a doer. I vote ISTP.

 

[PrimrosePopinjay]

Definite ITP- from what I've read, spent LOTS of time by himself. Not sure on S/N

 

[The Ü™]

Definitely a Rational over an Artisan. Inventor Rational, specifically.

 

[RaptorWizard]

I change my vote to INTP, because he wanted to know everything and was unprecedentedly curious, a universal architect of creation and imagination.

 

[RaptorWizard]

Fiona Bruce gives us an introduction to the master and a possible secret of his in sexy style!

 

[Pansophie]

INTP

I vote NTP as well. He was too much of an inventor to really be much else.

 

[RaptorWizard]

 

[RaptorWizard]

Was Leonardo introverted or extraverted? He was either an Inventor or Architect rational, though I will lend I slight possibility to Crafter artisan.

 

[RaptorWizard]

“Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
“Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
“The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
“Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
“He who thinks little errs much…”
― Leonardo da Vinci
“All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.”
― Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo's Notebooks
“Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!”
― Leonardo da Vinci
“once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up”
― Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo on Painting: An Anthology of Writings by Leonardo Da Vinci with a Selection of Documents Relating to His Career
“A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
“He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
“God sells us all things at the price of labor.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
“He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
“Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
“life without love, is no life at all”
― Leonardo da Vinci
“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions”
― Leonardo da Vinci
“Our life is made by the death of others.”
― Leonardo da Vinci