Da Vinci: 15 Hour Naps Every 4 Hours?

Factual Questions
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Apparently Edison did indeed go for the power naps thing, whereas it seems that Brunel would just work solidly until exhausted, then sleep wherever he happened to be.

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For what it’s worth…
http://www.mysleepcenter.com/FamousSleepers.html
By the way, Google has also produced a number of links:

http://www.google.ca/search?q="Da+Vinci"+"15+minutes"+naps&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&meta=lr%3Dlang_en|lang_fr

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Ah yes. Edison! I knew it was one of the great inventors.

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If I recall correctly, those 15 minute power naps got Kramer put in a sack and tossed in the East River.

YMMV

Happy

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In Never Cry Wolf Farley Mowatt talks about adopting the wolves sleeping habits. As I recall, it’s a bunch of short naps for a few hours. Every 15 or so minutes, he’d wake up and readjust, then go back to sleep. Worked OK in the field, but played Hell with his love life.