1. Leonardo Da Vinci

2. Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo Da Vinci was the consummate ‘Renaissance Man’, or polymath. He was a scientist, artist, and inventor. He is known for his dizzying intellect and amazing abilities.

3. 1. Calculate the measurement of Milan and Suburbs
His brilliance and energy was astounding- look at this “to do list” he made. Translated by Robert Krulwich for NPR.
1. Calculate the measurement of Milan and Suburbs
2. Find a book that treats of Milan and its churches, which is to be had at the stationer’s on the way to Cordusio
3. Discover the measurement of Corte Vecchio (the courtyard in the duke’s palace)
4. Discover the measurement of the castello (the duke’s palace itself)
5. Get the master of arithmetic to show you how to square a triangle

4. 6. Get Messer Fazio (a professor of medicine and law in Pavia) to show you about proportion
7. Get the Brera Friar (at the Benedictine Monastery to Milan) to show you De Ponderibus (a medieval text on mechanics)
8. Talk to]Giannino, the Bombardier, re. the means by which the tower of Ferrara is walled without loopholes (no one really knows what Da Vinci meant by this)
9. Ask Benedetto Potinari (A Florentine Merchant) by what means they go on ice in Flanders
10. Draw Milan
11. Ask Maestro Antonio how mortars are positioned on bastions by day or night
12. Examine the Crossbow of Mastro Giannetto
13. Find a master of hydraulics and get him to tell you how to repair a lock, canal and mill in the Lombard manner
14. Try to get Vitolone (the medieval author of a text on optics), which is in the Library at Pavia, which deals with the mathematics
15. Ask about the measurement of the sun promised me by Maestro Giovanni Francese

5. Notebooks
He filled hundreds of journals with his ideas, work, and sketches. They are incredibly difficult to read, because he wrote backwards, in teeny tiny script.

12. An Artist, an Inventor, and a scientist.
Your assignment…
DaVinci was known for his work as
An Artist, an Inventor, and a scientist.

13. Your assignment… Break into groups of 4. (One group will have 5. )
Each group will make a PowerPoint on Da Vinci the artist, the scientist, the inventor or his life.
The PowerPoint will be in your own words, with an image on each slide, that is explained in detail.
The PowerPoint will be due on Monday. Break up the assignment into clear parts so that you can work on this separately.
Make sure your design is attractive, your spelling and grammar are on point, and you know how to pronounce all your words correctly.
At least 12 slides, no more than 40.