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Leonardo, born in April 15, 1452, was an Italian multi-disciplinary genius whose work connected science and nature. His creations and innovations were eclectic and connected to human’s limitless sense of imagination. From a young age, he had incessant curiosity leading to him delving into innovations, paintings, art, history from a young age and spent hours through his day and night exploring these areas making him a master of these fields and epitomizing himself as the “Renaissance man”.

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Leonardo found an interest in fundamental sciences where he observed things around him and tried to understand the mechanism in which human body, plants, light and many more things work. He dissected 30 men and women, plants and animals and studied their anatomy and physiology.

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Leonardo kept a close account of all his sketched and ideas though books on various topics like machines, plants, anatomy. His notes were beautiful and considered to be an art by themselves and a fascinating insight into his mind. A lot of his manuscripts are published by the British Library online as they are a living record of intriguing ideas.

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Leonardo used his artistic skills to record plants and flower shapes and studied their structures. He went the root of every structure he studies and helped classifying many species into the Plant Kingdom.

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Leonardo worked on ideas related to geometry, symmetry and discovered the golden ratio. He used his knowledge of mathematics and art to make drawings of symmetrical objects and studied them.

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The study of plants, resulting in many beautiful drawings in his notebooks, was record in diagrammatic form the parts of the plant with precise appearance of plants, the manner of growth and the way that individual plants and flowers of a single variety differed from one another.

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Leonardo studied different geometric shapes and angles they made and used this for designing and inventing machines.

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He dissected a 100 year man and sketched the internal digestive, excretory, circulatory and respiratory system.

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It contains two manuscripts that has 1750 drawings and 100 pages and one of the images is the Head of Leda which Leonardo drew to the minutest detail and depicts the myth of Leda who was seduced by Jupiter during the fall of Troy in the Trojan war.

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Leonardo was extremely skilled in drawing and painting and sculpting.  He sketched prolifically and with intricacy leading to his interests in other fields. His creative artistic output was inspired by religious and cultural views of 15 th century.

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Annunciation is an oil and tempera painting from circa 1472-1475 and related to Luke 1:26-39 depicting the angel of Gabriel sent by God to announce Mary of the birth of her son, Jesus.

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Leonardo was an innovation genius, making machines and designing them which is beyond human imagination. He sketched machines that would make human life easier and his ideas of flights, screws were ahead of his time.

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Leonardo studied the muscles and the tension with motion caused in various animals and humans.

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The Codex Atlanticus is a 12-volume book of 1119 sheets spans a timeframe of 1478 tp 1519 and covers topics from mechanism, hydraulics, mathematics, astronomy and inventions.

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The painting is an oil painting on walnut wood from around 1513-1516. The image is a plain image of John the Baptist, dressed in pelts and smiling mysteriously. His finger points upwards and possibly refer to heaven. He highlights John the Baptist’s personality of being calm and gentle.

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Leonardo designed a hydraulic system based of rotatic wheels which have mechanical energy that are rotated by moving water creating a hydraulic pump system.

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The mechanism of how bones join and function were studied in detail for humans and other animals.

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This represents the ray diagram of  shadow cast by a celestial object on a plane when it is in front of a larger light emitting body.

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This is an oil painting from circa 1503 which was commissioned as the altarpiece of Church of Santissima. The painting captures a mixed emotion of calm and confused expression and the interaction of Virgin Mary with infant Jesus in the presence of St. Anne.

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Small pulley’s, carts, desks were designed by Leonardo and used advance mechanical principles and were sketched to very minute and accurate details of the machine.

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He dissected a pregnant woman and observed a growing fetus and the stages of growth of the fetus and recorded it

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Leonardo designed a screw which was artistic and based of principles in which an Archimedean screw works

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The steam canon depicts a canon based of steam energy and doesn’t require electrical or mechanical input. It is purely based on the mechanism of a steam engine which

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Mona Lisa is a portrait painted around 1503-1506 with oil. He brings to attention a mysterious smile of a woman which is the hallmark of his painting and the image of a man sketched above her. She is also distinguished by other features like absence of jewelry and elaborate decorations. It is believed there are hidden agendas and meanings behind the painting of Mona Lisa which is still under investigation.

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The flying machine is a powerful imaginative sketch showing the flight of a mechanical body based on the principles of flight of a bird.

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An iconic nude male with superposition’s of arms and legs showing details of human structure externally and the symmetry of man in various angles and directions.

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The Last Supper is his sole surviving mural which now hangs in Louvre which was painted 1495-1498 with oil on plaster. In this picture, he isolates Jesus Christ at the center of the scene and surrounded by his apostle. The scene in the picture captures the scene of Christ and his relation to the different apostles and highlights their emotional and psychological state.

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The painting was finished around 1475 and depicts the Baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist in the presence of angels.