Leonardo Da Vinci


Introduction

There is hardly a country in the world where Leonardo da Vinci is not known above all as an inventor. Much admired as his paintings and drawings are by everyone , what appeals most to the popular imagination is the evidence provided by his notebooks that he had envisioned technological innovations which place him ahead of his time. Few people know that da Vinci had a multiple sides of genius , and that he strongly   knocked the doors of science and geometry , and left behind him a huge number of information, paintings , researches and inventions that effected the human civilization. Thanks to being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetypeof the renaissance man, a man whose unquenchable curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention.   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. Helen Gardner1 says "The scope and depth of his interests were without precedent...His mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote". Through this research, I do not think that my humble words could list da Vinci’s magnificent, breath taking , and outstanding Masterpiecesnor describe this great man who entered the book of immortals by what he had given and shared with the human civilization and culture .  

Da Vinci’s personal life
Childhood, 1452–1466
Leonardo da ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452) , was an Italian polymath2, he is the illegitimate son of Messer Piero, a notary, and Caterina, a peasant woman. His early life was spent in the region of Vinci, in the valley of the Arno River in near Florence, firstly with his mother and in later childhood in the household of his father, grandfather and uncle Francesco. Leonardo had no surname in the modern sense, "da Vinci" simply meaning "of Vinci": his full...