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It has been said that life imitates art. Well, perhaps. But in a case just recently reported, life, it seems, imitates the artist, or at least the legend of an artist: Leonardo da Vinci, driven by his need to make time for his many pursuits in the arts and science, is rumored to have slept only one and one-half hours a day . . . this, by taking 15-minute catnaps every four hours.
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Aronoff, M.S. (1991). The Early Bird Catches the Worm, so Let Me Sleep on It. In: Sleep and Its Secrets. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6056-6_5
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