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Da Vinci's Relationship with Geology
Da Vinci traced his interest in geology back to a powerful childhood memory that he had of entering a cave near where he was living and seeing, by torchlight, bands of different fossils in the rock. This suggested to him that at one time the cave - which was high up in the Apennine Mountains - was once below sea level.
Leonardo studied the way in which sedimentary rock was formed and this led him to dismiss the notion that it was Noah's Great Flood that caused the sea shells to be thrown up into the mountains.
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Hydrodynamic Studies
As a young man, Da Vinci used to construct numerous different objects thanks to an uncle who taught him how. Da Vinci thus made a very good self taught civil engineer. He constructed several inventions that were deemed to be very useful by the state of the time, including bridges and several cata...
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Da Vinci's Other Scientific Discoveries
From his perpetual motion machine to his theories about the relationship between light and opaque bodies, Da Vinci's scientific discoveries are all totally fascinating.
He used his geometrical investigations to understand more about perspective (and subsequently applied this knowledge...
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Da Vinci's Studies in Anatomy
Da Vinci made many detailed drawings of both human and animal anatomy. His famous drawing of the Vitruvian Man is an example of his interest in the proportions of the human body. This drawingis a good example of how several of Da Vinci's scientific works could also be considered works of art....
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The Sketchbooks Of Da Vinci
- Da Vinci's plethora of sketchbooks and journals is a window onto his scientific mind.
- Usually, Da Vinci wrote in his journals and annotated his scientific diagrams with mirror writing (i.e. writing that could be read by placing a mirror up against the page).
- He also publi...
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The Scientist Named Da Vinci
Da Vinci is often described as being a true Renaissance polymath: that is, a person who wishes to understand all branches of knowledge.
His scientific method consisted of a mix of observation of the world around him and the physical experimentation with, and construction...
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Lack Of Structure Fuels Multi-Dimensional Knowledge
A lack of a formal structure to his education is precisely what enabled Da Vinci to be such a free thinker and such a good scientist. Da Vinci's scientific interests, inventions and experiments spread out vastly into numerous different areas of science. Not only was he interested in chemistry...
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Da Vinci’s obsession
Leonardo da Vinci worked on the painting for four years, and possibly at intervals after that. He always took it with him when he travelled, and he never signed or dated it.
The picture went with him when, towards the end of his life, he moved to France.
At that time, it was not seen...
Natural elements that most fascinated Leonardo
Leonardo was self-taught. He didn’t go to school because he was born out of wedlock.
- He loved the flow of the streams that went into the Arno River. So he studied them and continued until his deathbed to draw the spiral forms to figure out the math behind them.
- He noticed ho...
The Greatest Polymath
Leonardo da Vinci is generally recognised as one of the great figures of the Renaissance and one of the greatest ever polymaths.
As the world marks the 500th anniversary of his death, it’s important to look at some of the ways in which he showed that he was a thinker who w...
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