Leonardo da Vinci was an amazing artist and that is what most people know him for. Did you know that da Vinci didn’t consider himself an artist though? da Vinci was a man of science, that’s what he liked to call himself. He was interested in new discoveries and creating things that would make life easier for him and the world around him. He traveled, worked with many people, and his art was part of his science.
Leonardo was the kind of man that took opportunities. If he saw potential in his findings and discoveries some place other than were he was he would get there. After living in Florence for a while he packed up and went to Milan in 1482. He went to work with a man named Lodovico Sforza, who he thought could help him more that his last instructor Medici. He wrote a letter to Sforza telling him of a cannon he wanted to invent that would be able to move easily from place to place “without any noise even though it may be necessary to pass underneath trenches or a river.” We don’t don’t know for sure what his motivation was in his discoveries but we do know he was a Renaissance man, it was normal for
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He was known for “anatomy, botany, cartography, geology, mathematics, aeronautics, optics, mechanics, astronomy, hydraulics, sonics, civil engineering, weaponry, [and] city planning.” I found this list in a book that is dedicated to his life as a man not just and artist. I will be the first to admit that I have no idea what some of these things are, some I didn’t even know existed at that time. We don’t know for sure what drove him to these discoveries other than curiosity. He kept his notes very private making even the questions he may have asked secret as well. He lived to sketch ideas and object he thought of in his notes and they were vast but almost never finished. Almost as if in the middle of one thought he came up with another and worked on that until his next