Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519 Everyone has heard about the famous artist Leonardo da Vinci, the creator of the magnificent paintings. In fact Leonardo was a scientist and an inventor too. He showed interest about various intellectual and practical activities : analytical anatomy, mechanism, mathematics, technology,botany, geology,hydrology and so on.Leonardo da Vinci was born on 15 April 1452, he was the out-of-wedlock son of Piero da Vinci , a laird and a successful notery, and the son of a peasant named Caterina. Immediately after son's birth, his father married a rich family's daughter. Leonardo grew up in the countryside where he was born, close to Vinci town of Tuscany.Throughout his childhood he collected insects, snakes, butterflies,shrimps and other smalls creatures to unite them and to form a big , ugly creation. Since he was little Leonardo painted very well and had talent for music. Recognizing these qualities, his father brought him in Firence to Andrea del Verochio, who tought him to draw, to sculpt and the elementary mechanism. Leonardo as a young man was handosme, good-looking and physically strong. He attracted everyone around him. He never got married and his private life is still a subject of debate today. It is known that in 1482 Leonardo left from Firence to serve close to the Duke of Milano.During his visit in Milano he dealt with the development of the military technology. Meanwhile he studied mechanism and optics. He learned in his own latin , because in that time , very few ancient writings existed in other languages. He continued to paint.It was one of his most prolific periods, during which draws the famous ''Last Supper'' (1497). He designed flying machines.
He designed flying machines.
“Last Supper� (1497) by Leonardo da Vinci Outline tree dimensional 72
From Milano Leonardo went to Venice and eventually he placed in Florence , where he worked as a chief inspector of military fortifications. However his most preferred activity was painting . In that time he painted ''Mona Lisa'' (1503). Along his artistic activity, he never stopped studying and observing the nature. He kept notes in his famous notebook. The notebook was discovered later and it turned out that he used to write otherwise,apparently because he was left-handed. Some of his notes and sketches are kept in libraries and museums. From them we learn about his scientific work.He studied human's and bird's anatomy to solve the problem of human's possibility to fly. He studied the water's movement and made projects for avoiding rivers and the construction of canals. He invented pulley systems, a diving equipment, lath and clocks. He was very interested for the problem of seeing and light diffusion.he thought that the light spread just like the generated waves during '' the fall of a stone on the surface of water''. Studying the properties of the body's movement , he arrives very close yo the discovery of Newton's laws with the statement ''the body continues to move as long as a force is acting on it''. It is said that he never published his scientific achievements because he couldn't put order in his manuscripts and, despite his major scientific achievements, he is mainly remembered as a great artist. He died on 2 May 1519 leaving his friends and students all of his paintings and manuscripts.