Leonardo da Vinci’s influence spreads over several hundred years and several continents, not just his renown, like Michelangelo. His ideas and inventions changed the course of science and engineering. Da Vinci studied so many broad fields and still “mastered” most of them with relative ease. “He filled notebooks with data and drawings that also reveal his other scientific interests such as firearms, the action of water, the flight of birds (leading to designs for human flight), the growth of plants and geology.” (“Facts) Throughout the Modern era, Leonardo’s work has been used, expanded upon, and perfected; but without his ideas and designs to start with, the human race very well could’ve been scientifically stunted or taken a very different
Leonardo da Vinci’s influence spreads over several hundred years and several continents, not just his renown, like Michelangelo. His ideas and inventions changed the course of science and engineering. Da Vinci studied so many broad fields and still “mastered” most of them with relative ease. “He filled notebooks with data and drawings that also reveal his other scientific interests such as firearms, the action of water, the flight of birds (leading to designs for human flight), the growth of plants and geology.” (“Facts) Throughout the Modern era, Leonardo’s work has been used, expanded upon, and perfected; but without his ideas and designs to start with, the human race very well could’ve been scientifically stunted or taken a very different