He filled thousands of pages in his notebooks with plans and designs for inventions as varied as a submarine, an air cooling system, "glasses to see the moon large," and even a flying machine! But while he was employed by princes, popes, and kings, Leonardo's personal fortune was never great. Fascinated with the secrets of nature and the human body, he carried out his own dissections and experiments. He quickly surpassed his teacher, hut his passionate interests went far beyond art.
Denied a more noble profession by his illegitimate birth, as a boy Leonardo was apprenticed to a famous artist. He brought a sublime artistry to science and a dramatic realism to art, crowning the Renaissance with his glittering vision. He was an inventor whose imagination reached centuries beyond his own time. Sometimes credited with the inventions of the parachute, helicopter and tank, his genius epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal.Born in 1452 to a peasant woman and a country gentleman, Leonardo da Vinci possessed one of the most astonishing minds the world has ever known.
He has been variously called the father of paleontology, ichnology, and architecture, and is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, more commonly Leonardo da Vinci, (Italian: 15 April 1452 – ) was an Italian polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. Please keep this in mind when adding books to this list! Books about his missing paintings or thrillers that use them as plot devices (ex: Da Vinci Code) do not cut it and do not count. This list is not for books that merely feature his paintings and works! HE as a PERSON needs to be a character in the book. Leonardo needs to be featured as a PHYSICAL PERSON in the book. Should be more than just in passing, though. Fiction books that feature Leonardo da Vinci.
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