It was once thought that eyes radiated a special type of ray to be able to see color. Shadow is the absence of light this is a fact that people have trouble understanding. Another olden time fact is that “the planets and the world were, for Leonardo, reflective balls of variegated earth and water, borrowing radiance from the marvelous sun.” Da Vinci thought these were factual, because his predecessors told him so. The reason Da Vinci was successful is because he was able to define a higher truth from lesser truths. Leonardo da Vinci was a master painter, when he first started a painting he would draw a basic outline, then close up sketches of intricate details. Da Vinci was good because he paid attention to details. He experimented with colors