Da Vinci
Submitted by itsallz on January 12, 2012
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Da Vinci
The term Renaissance man comes from fifteenth-century Italy and refers to the idea of a person with knowledge and skills in a number of different areas. Perhaps, no single individual defines the idea of a Renaissance man better than Leonardo da Vinci – an artist, scientist, architect, engineer and inventor.
“Leonardo da Vinci was an autodidact polymath (self-taught expert) in architecture, science, engineering, anatomy, geology and botany” (Inventor-strategies). Da Vinci was a genius. Leonardo Da Vinci fist received his training from a man named Andrea di Cione at a very young age of 14. This man taught Da Vinci art. Da Vinci’s art at this time where simple sketches of...
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