1. Leonardo da Vinci “Renaissance Man”
painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer

2. Leonardo
da Vinci
1452–1519

3. Leonardo painted to pay the bills, but his true love was science
Leonardo painted to pay the bills, but his true love was science. One of his best known paintings is the Mona Lisa

4. The Last Supper

5. Leonardo da Vinci's Notebooks
Hydraulic Machines
Machine to grind convex lenses

6. Observations on human anatomy written in mirror script
Leonardo purposefully left parts of his designs off his notebooks to prevent plagiarism. He also wrote notes and directions backwards so that the reader had to hold a mirror to his writing to read what was written. While some believe that this was another way to prevent plagiarism, others suggest that he wrote this way because he was left handed and didn't want the ink to smear as he moved his hand across the paper.
Observations on human anatomy written in mirror script

7. Viola organista- first bowed keyboard instrument to ever have been invented

8. Arial Screw-considered to be an early design for a helicopter.

9. Flying Machine Based on Bat Wings Design Modern Model of
da Vinci Flying Machine
Many of Leonardo's designs have been built within the last 25 years to test their validity. Not all worked, but some were viable designs centuries before that concept was ever “invented.”

10. Leonardo's “Tank” Design
Modern Model of
da Vinci's Tank

11. Simple Machines