Leonardo da Vinci ( ) Painter, architect, engineer, botanist, city planner, inventor, scientist, anatomist… Renaissance Man
The Last Supper (1498); Fresco, 460 x 880 cm (15 x 29 ft); Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie (Refectory), Milan
Portrait of Mona Lisa ( ), also known as La Gioconda, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo; ; Oil on wood, 77 x 53 cm (30 x 20 7/8 in); Musee du Louvre, Paris
The notebooks: 4,000 pages of notes and sketches
Shade and shadows
Weapons
Siege machines
Rapid deployment bridges
Landscapes
Nature
Architecture
Town planning
Facial expressions
Anatomy
Machines and inventions: “the organs.” Chain, crankshaft, gear, spring
Winches, block and tackle
Mining machine
Cranes, hoists
Worm gear
Pumps, Archimedes' screw
File cutter
Multi-tasking
The first submarine
A flying machine
Winged flying machine
"I think, if this screw instrument is well made, that means from linen starched (to block its pores) and is turned rapidly, then this said screw will find its female in the air and climb upwards." Envisioning the helicopter
The first robot, 1495, an armored knight