leonardo da vinci (1452-1519)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

Painter, architect, engineer, botanist, city planner, inventor, scientist, anatomist… Renaissance Man

The Last Supper (1498); Fresco, 460 x 880 cm (15 x 29 ft); Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie (Refectory), Milan

Portrait of Mona Lisa (1503-1506), also known as La Gioconda, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo; 1503-06; Oil on wood, 77 x 53 cm (30 x 20 7/8 in); Musee du Louvre, Paris

The notebooks: 4,000 pages of notes and sketches

Shade and shadows

Weapons

Siege machines

Rapid deploymentbridges

Landscapes

Nature

Architecture

Town planning

Facial expressions

Anatomy

Machines and inventions: “the organs.” Chain, crankshaft, gear, spring

Winches, block and tackle

Mining machine

Cranes, hoists

Worm gear

Pumps, Archimedes' screw

Filecutter

Multi-tasking

The firstsubmarine

A flyingmachine

Winged flyingmachine

"I think, if this screw instrument is well made, that means from linen starched (to block its pores) and is turned rapidly, then this said screw will find its female in the air and climb upwards."

http://www.museumseries.com/airscrew.htmEnvisioning the helicopter

The first robot, 1495, an armored knight