The Amazing Inventions of LEONARDO DA VINCI

The Amazing Inventions of LEONARDO DA VINCI

Perhaps no one history achieved so much in so many different fields as did Leonardo da Vinci. He was an architect, astronomer, geologist and biologist, and also a musician and sculptor as well as painter. His Monalisa is one of the most famous painting in the world. There seems to be no field in which he was not a master.

Like Roger Bacon, he foresaw many of discoveries and inventions that would be made in centuries to come, but unlike Bacon who only dreamed about them, Leoanardo sat down and worked out the plans and designs.

From his notebooks we can tell that Leonardo approached science and art with the same method. After studying a problem, he made many sketches to help him find a solution. He saw no difference between planning a machine and a painting.

He had a keen interest in how things worked. In his notebooks there are working drawings of rockets, machine guns, parachutesand flying machines. There are also designs for measuring the force of the wind. The moisture in the air, and the speed of travel.

How Could horses run so swiftly? He compared the feet of horses and men, carefully examining the bones and muscles.

Why were birds able to fly ?Leonardo bought all the birds in the market. He let them out oh their cages and watched the movement of their wings and bodies. He Carefully studied the contruction of the feathers, the tail and the bones.

Then the thought came o him : “Why should not man be able to fly?” His study of bird structure and flight helped him design the first helicopter.

Leonardo has a mysterious power for guessing at discoveries that were going to be made in the future. He guessed that the blood circulates through the human body. He guessed that failing things increase their speed as they fall. He guessed that the earth is one of the sun.

One of his most remarkable guesses solved the mystery of the regular changing of the shape of the moon.
“ There can be only one answer”, said Leonardo. “ The earth reflects light just as the moon does. Some of the light from the sun that reaches us here on earth bounces of all to the moon. This reflected light allows us to see. The earth acts like a giant mirror and so we can see the shining part of the old moon by earthshine.

Another famous discovery of leoanrdo’s solved a very old puzzle : How does it happen that the patterns of fish and oysters are to be found in the rocks on top of mountains?”

Leonardo carefully exaimined the patterns. These prints were the fossils or remains of sea animals that had lived on our planet thousands of years ago!

But how did they get from the bottom of the sea to the tiop of the highest mountain?

Said Leaonardo, “ What is now a mountain top was once under the surface of the sea.”

Leornardo was right again. In acient times extradinary changes took place on the surface of the earth. In some places great continesnts disappeared forever beneath the waves. And In other places mountains raised their heads high above the water, carrying with them the remains of sea plants and animals.

Leonardo da Vinci was born in the town of Vinci, Italy. In 1452. His father was a successful government official, and his mother was a peasant girl. Leoanardo spent his early years on his family’s farm. Free to explore in the fields and streams, he grew to love the outdoors.

In 1469 Leonardo moved with his father to Florence where the young man learned painting from Andrea del Verrocchio. A few years later he painted scuh a beautifull angel that Verrochio. His matter, gave up painting altogether forever.

One of leonardo’s weaknesses as a human being was that he frequently left a painting he was drawing unfinished, regardless of its state of completion. He did so especially if there was another project that interested him.

Another of leonardo’s interest was the study of human body. At first, like other artists of the 15th century, he studied the outside appearance of the body. Then he became interested in its inner structure and later he even dissected several corpes to find out how the body was put together.

Leonardo looked at plants as closely as he looked at men and animal, and he made many dicoveries about plant growth.

Soon after he arrived in Milan in 1482, he began to write down things that interested him. His notebooks show the great variety and originality of his scientific observations. He Ilustrated his theories with very beautiful and exact drawings. By studying his drawings of machines. 20th century engineers. With modern materials, have been able to build models that work perfectly. The notebooks are hard to read because Leonardo used mirror writing. He did not want his ideas to be stolen.

In. 1516 Leonardo left italy to become chief painter and engineer to King of France. The King gave him freedom to carry on his experiments.

While in France, Leonardo became paralyzed. He had to stop painting, but his mind remainded active. During his last years he received lots of visitors, who listened with great respect to the masters’s brilliant ideas about art and science. He died in this country on May 2, 1519.

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