If you're interested in reading about Da Vinci I highly recommend 'A World Lit Only by Fire' by William Manchester. It described a few of the bright shining stars who brought the world out of the Dark Ages and into the Renaissance: Da Vinci, Magellan, Copernicus, Michelangelo, St. Augustine, and Martin Luther.
I've not yet started my next non-fiction book yet, but the last I read was "Charlatan" by Pope Brock and that's about "Doctor" John R. Brinkley who was a famous huckster who performed various surgeries and gave out loads of bogus remedies to people seeking "verve, virility, and vigor". His most famous procedure is that of transplanting goat testicles to humans earing him the nickname "The Goat Gland Doctor". It was a stomach churning but very interesting ride. The wild times those hacks had were quite amazing but it gives you a good solid foundation of skepticism when someone announces a new panacea
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