Leonardo da Vinci

Who was he?-Leonardo da Vinci wasn't just an incredible artist

He was also an: -inventor-scientist-mathematician-engineer-writer-musician -and more…

Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 and died on May 2, 1519. He was Italian.

He lived during the time of the Renaissance da Vinci" means "of Vinci", the town where he was born.

-He hated war, and was a vegetarian

Facts

Because Leonardo's interests were so varied, he was easily distracted and had trouble completing his works

Many people think that he was the most talented person ever to have lived

He was left-handed

Facts

Renaissance = Rebirth or new beginning (14th to 17th century)

Transformation in time from the dark ages (when past knowledge was lost) to the modern era It was a rebirth of education, science, art, literature, music, and a better life for people in general.

What is the Renaissance?

Renaissance Man = A person with many talents & considered an expert in many things

Example: Leonardo da Vinci

Famous Paintings

The Mona Lisa is perhaps the most well known painting in the world.

It took da Vinci about ten years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

Mona Lisa

The Vitruvian Man is a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci

It shows the relationship between human proportions and geometry

The Vitruvian Man

The Last Supper

- He spent six years or more on the Last Supper, one of the most famous paintings in the world. 

He drew pictures and designs of his inventions

Many of da Vinci's drawings and journals were made in his pursuit of scientific knowledge

His journals were filled with over 13,000 pages of his observations of the world.

Inventions

What is it?

Helicopter -His aerial screw design is one of the coolest designs that he ever sketched in his notebooks. -Working much like a modern helicopter, this flying machine looks a lot like a giant whirling pinwheel. -Unfortunately, it never worked….but it was a cool idea

While working in Venice, the "water city", in 1500, da Vinci created his scuba gear for sneak attacks on enemy ships from underwater.

Send men to the bottom of the harbor in diving suits and let them cut holes in enemy ships.

Diving Suit

What is it?

The idea of a parachute is to reduce a person's speed when falling so that they would survive.

Da Vinci, who was fascinated by the idea of human flight

As da Vinci wrote in his notebooks, it would allow a man 'to throw himself down from any great height without suffering any injury.

Parachute

-He hated war and loathed the idea of creating killing machines

-He needed money to support his household and found it easy to convince his wealthy patrons that such machines would help them defeat their enemies.

Perhaps it was for the best that none of da Vinci's war machines ever actually got built.

Machine Gun

Enormous Crossbow

-He designed an giant crossbow. -When constructed it was not able to fire successfully

War Boat

What is it?

While working in Milan, Leonardo invented his ultimate war machine: the armored tank

Driven by the muscle power of eight men, the armored tank was a turtle-like moving shell with 36 guns poking out of its sides.

Armored Tank

Armored Tank

What is it?

-Da Vinci was fascinated by birds.-He created a machine that would

allow humans to soar through the air like birds.

-A machine that flies by flapping its wings by imitating the flapping-wing flight of birds, bats, and insects.

Ornithopter

The Flying Machine

Flight was of particular interest to da Vinci.

He studied the flight of birds and created plans for flying machines

Hundreds of years before the Wright brothers took their first flight (1903)

Unlike some of his other inventions, his flying machine was built and tested.

While it may have been able to fly in the sky, it could not get itself off the ground.

Flying Machine

Shoes for Walking on Water

His Inventions

Too Busy to Finish -Leonardo Da Vinci took things slow.  

-He loved to observe, study, and plan before beginning a project.  By the time he started, he would have too many ideas to focus on one thing. 

-He was known for leaving his paintings unfinished.

-He spent his time on more important things…his inventions.

Leonardo the Procrastinator

Other Water-Related Devices submarine water turbines swing bridges double-decker bridges various boats self flotation device

Other Inventions

“As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.”

“The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”

“Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.”

Quotes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE8HHixDX2U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB-nfp-JxHQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP0WWUyUCAQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBuLoRzhWeI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3isQI0nXQRE

Educational Website

http://legacy.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/LeoHomePage.htmlhttp://www.wikihow.com/Make-Paper-Look-Oldhttp://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Paper-Scroll

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