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Leonardo da ser Piero da Vinci
was born in Anchiano in Italy (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519). Leonardo was a very talented Italian Renaissance multitalented man: architect, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, inventor, geometer, scientist, mathematician, musician and painter. He has been described as the archetype of the "Renaissance man", a man infinitely curious and equally inventive.
He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time.
Leonardo is famous for his realistic paintings, such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, as well as for influential drawings such as the Vitruvian Man. He conceived of ideas vastly ahead of his own time, notably conceptually inventing the helicopter, a tank, the use of concentrated solar power, the calculator, a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics, the double hull, and many others. Very few of his designs were constructed or realized during his lifetime; modern scientific approaches to metallurgy and engineering were only in their infancy during the Renaissance.
In addition, he greatly advanced the state of knowledge in the fields of anatomy, astronomy, civil engineering, optics, and the study of water (hydrodynamics). Of his works, only a few paintings survive, together with his notebooks (scattered among various collections) containing drawings, scientific diagrams and notes.
Here are some of his most famous pictures and designs(links):
He was the man who invented the first vehicle with a steering mechanism which was built recently in Italy and .... it worked.
Leonardo da Vinci was credited with anticipating the car when a model of one of his drawings was hailed as the first self-propelling vehicle conceived.
The wooden 5ft by 5ft 6in model, featured in an exhibition at Florence's Science History Museum, is driven by springs. It is also the first projected vehicle with programmable steering.Designed to operate as a robot, the car, which can travel a few yards at a time, has an unusual optional extra: a steering column.
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