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We were asked to make a project about a person that we believed made a difference for the society . The person we choose is the famous painter sculptor , architect , musician , mathematician , engineer , inventor , anatomist , geologist , cartographer , botanist , and writer. Our final decision on the painter is because we want people to know , that even though Da Vinci being famous as a painter he made a big difference through his curiosity based actions and graced mankind with a new knowledge without greed for money and fame . LEONARDO DA VINCI

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We were asked to make a project about a person that we believed made a difference for the society .

The person we choose is the famous painter sculptor , architect , musician , mathematician , engineer , inventor , anatomist , geologist , cartographer , botanist , and writer. Our final decision on the painter is because we want people to know , that even though Da Vinci being famous as a painter he made a big difference through his curiosity based actions and graced mankind with a new knowledge without greed for money and fame .

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci is famous for being talented in many fields

The article that follows is a list of Leonardo’s most creative ideas. We hope that this will be a good motive for people, to learn more about the great man.

N. 1: Mirror writingwas it ploy to thwart Renaissance copycats peeking at his notes , or just a way to avoid the inky mess of writing left-handed ? Whatever his motives , Da Vinci sure liked mirror writing: most of his journals are scrawled in reverse.

N. 2 : Scuba Gear Da Vinci's fascination with the sea spurred many designs for aquatic exploration. His diving suit was made of leather, connected to a snorkel made of cane and a bell that floated at the surface. Proving the artist was also practical, the suit included a pouch the diver could urinate in .

• N. 3 : The Revolving Bridge Always a fan of the quick getaway , Da Vinci thought his revolving bridge would be best used in warfare . The lights yet sturdy materials , affixed to a rolling rope-and-pulley system , allowed an army to pick up and go at a moment’s notice.

• N. 4 : The Winged GliderDa Vinci's imagination was full of ideas for flying machines, including several gliders equipped with flappable wings. This open-shelled model , fitted with seats and gears for the pilot, did not include a design for a crash helmet.

• N. 5 : The Aerial ScrewModern scientists agree it may never have lifted off the ground, but Da Vinci's "helicopter" design is still one of his most famous. The curious contraption was meant to be operated by a four-man team and could have been inspired by a windmill toy popular in Leonardo's time.

• N. 6 : The Triple-Barreled Cannon More a thinker than a fighter, Da Vinci's distaste for conflict didn't stop him from dreaming up designs for more efficient cannons like this one. His jacked-up triple-barrel would have been a deadly weapon on the battlefield, fast and light with lots of extra fire power.

N. 7: The Ideal City Living in a Milan wrought with plague, Da Vinci envisioned a more efficient city he’d be proud to call home. His architectural draughts are highly detailed and even include horse stables with fresh air vents. To the bewilderment of modern Milanese, he did not make room for a soccer stadium.

N. 8 : The Self-Propelled Car It's no Ferrari, but Da Vinci's designs for a self-propelled vehicle were revolutionary for his day. His wooden "car" moved by the interaction of springs with geared wheels. Scientists at one museum in Florence built a replica in 2004 and found it worked as Da Vinci intended.

• Number 9 : Geologic TimePlate tectonics? No sweat. While most of his contemporaries explained inland, mountain-top mollusk fossils as leftovers from the Great Flood, Da Vinci thought otherwise. He supposed (right) that the mountains must once have been coastline before many years of gradually shifting upwards.

Number 10 :The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci modeled his perfect human form after the proportions laid out by Vitruvius, an ancient Roman architect. The angry-looking man drawn by Da Vinci has reason to smile - he's now considered one of the most recognizable figures on earth.

Rather than writing the list of Leonardo’s characteristics that made him a person who made a difference through social movements, we preferred to make a list of his most creative and revolutionary ideas that could change/changed the world and helped humanity towards knowledge.Leonardo’s inventions were ahead of his time and that was the only obstacle from making them real , but if the machines were build it could dramatically change that era’s technology and maybe mankind would evolve quicker and better .

• Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci 15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist , and writer. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance man, a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination". According to art historian Helen Gardner, the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent and "his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote". Marco Rosci states that while there is much speculation about Leonardo, his vision of the world is essentially logical rather than mysterious, and that the empirical methods he employed were unusual for his time .

• Born out of wedlock to a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina, in Vinci in the region of Florence, Leonardo was educated in the studio of the renowned Florentine painter Verrocchio. Much of his earlier working life was spent in the service of Ludovico il Moro in Milan. He later worked in Rome, Bologna and Venice , and he spent his last years in France at the home awarded him by Francis I.

• Leonardo was, and is, renowned primarily as a painter. Among his works, the Mona Lisa is the most famous and most parodied portrait and The Last Supper the most reproduced religious painting of all time, with their fame approached only by Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam. Leonardo's drawing of the Vitruvian Man is also regarded as a cultural icon being reproduced on items as varied as the euro coin, textbooks, and T-shirts. Perhaps fifteen of his paintings have survived, the small number because of his constant, and frequently disastrous, experimentation with new techniques, and his chronic procrastination. Nevertheless, these few works, together with his notebooks, which contain drawings, scientific diagrams, and his thoughts on the nature of painting, compose a contribution to later generations of artists rivalled only by that of his contemporary, Michelangelo.

• Leonardo is revered for his technological ingenuity. He conceptualised flying machines, an armoured vehicle, concentrated solar power, an adding machine, and the double hull, also outlining a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics. Relatively few of his designs were constructed or were even feasible during his lifetime, but some of his smaller inventions, such as an automated bobbin winder and a machine for testing the tensile strength of wire, entered the world of manufacturing unheralded. He made important discoveries in anatomy, civil engineering, optics, and hydrodynamics, but he did not publish his findings and they had no direct influence on later science

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.Leonardo da Vinci

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

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It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

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It had long come in my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them .They went out and happened to thingsLeonardo da Vinci

Nothing strengthens authority as much as silenceLeonardo da Vinci

The greatest deception men suffer from their own opinions

Leonardo da Vinci

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough. we must apply. Being willing is not enough. we must do Leonardo da Vinci

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.Leonardo da Vinci

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.Leonardo da Vinci

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself. Leonardo da Vinci

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. Leonardo da Vinci

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.Leonardo da Vinci

Presentation by : Helen Hasioti & Joanna Ploumistou 6th junior high school of Larissa Greececlass : c’5Theme : Heroes in historySubject : Social Studies Activity Date : January of 2015