Leonardo Da Vinci Research Paper

Leonardo da Vinci was an inventor, painter, and somewhat of a theoretical physicist in Renaissance Italy. He was a brilliant mind that led to a lot of modern day inventions, engineers took his sketches and turned them into modern day machines such as the helicopter, airplane, tank, diving suit, and many others. Leonardo also was a well-known and practiced painter of the time, he painted several works but his most famous and well known would have to be the Mona Lisa.

Leonardo da Vinci was born in “Anchiano, Tuscany (now Italy), close to the town of Vinci that provided the surname we associate with him today” (history.com, 2009, p.1). His parents weren’t wed, his mother married another man when Da Vinci was young starting a new family, she was

Leonardo had a decent grasp of physics to know that the shapes and movement of these objects would create lift leading him to be one of the worlds first theoretical physicist playing with concepts that technology hasn’t quite caught up to. The Flying machine was his sketch of a machine that could sustain flight, it loosely looks like a bird, the machine has wings on both sides and a tail with stabilizers on it, and a spot in the middle for the pilot to sit. The wingspan of the flying machine was in excession of 33 feet. Unlike modern planes the flying machine was lifted by the energy a pilot could output before fatiguing, the pilot was to pedal a crank with hands and feet that would make the wings of the aircraft flap, while all of the pilots limbs were busy he/she was to use their head to steer the machine. This invention as mentioned in his notes was inspired by flying animals such as bats, leonardo was brilliant that he worked with natural occuring things, he didn’t have anyting that could apply a thrust force to the object so he made the wings flap to create airflow and get it off the ground. Once off the ground the machine created lift as wings should, by shooting more air over the top and less underneath creating more pressure

The Mona Lisa is still admired by people around the world today, one of the reasons its so famous is because its shrouded in so much mystery, people don’t know who the women he painted was or if she was actually a women. Leonardo was a master in the Chiaroscuro, “Leonardo da Vinci was the first artist to use value consistently across colors, achieving tonal unity in which a figure presents a single, swelling, homogeneously generated volume in contrast to the inevitably fragmented effects of color-modeling. Light, color and form are now related in a way that approximates, and describes, their scientific and naturalistic behavior” (webexhibits.org/colorart, 2006, p. 1), Chiaroscuro is a painting method that uses contrast between light and shade to make the color pop, the literal definition from Italian is light and dark. Leonardo finished the painting in 1517, now the painting hangs in the Louvre Museam in France, before that “the Mona Lisa passed through many hands, even hanging for a time in the bedroom of Napoleon” (© 2000–2015 Sandbox Networks, Inc., publishing as Infoplease, 2015, P.1). The Mona Lisa was given to the Louvre in 1804 and still resides