The life of the extremely talented artist, and brilliant scientist, Leonardo da Vinci began on the date of April 15, 1452 during the Renaissance; in the town of Vinci, Italy. His parents were Peiro da Vinci, and a beautiful young woman named Caterina. From a very young age he discovered his artistic skills and became an apprentice to a famous Renaissance master. For many years he worked on very beautiful paintings for people such as Duke Lodovico Sforza, and many other important people. His wonderful fulfilled life has been an inspiration for many people and because of his many accomplishments. When people think of Leonardo da Vinci they remember all of the different things that he had done in his scientific and artistic life.
Many people have heard of this brillant man from his famouspaintings and portraits such as the Mona Lisa, and the Madonna of the Rocks. Although Leonardo da Vinci devoted most of his life to artwork he also studied a lot of science, biology, mathematics, anatomy, and physics.
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Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci, Galleria dell'...He also was very interested in mechanics when he was a civil and military engineer. This man also studied the flight of birds for a long time. He was interested in the study of flight and had theories of how to make flying machines. He is assumed to be the first man who studied flight, and if it wasn't for him Orville and Wilbur Wright most likely wouldn't have constructed the first airplane. He was extremelyinterested in this area of science. Another thing he was involved withwas the construction of canals and automation. He tried to make machines to transport people to different places, but he never accomplished this task. He also did expirements of nature including the stratification of rocks, the movement of light, the motion of...