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Leonardo da Vinci was born April 15, 1452 and had a son with a peasant woman, and were married soon after.
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His father authorized him at the age of fourteen, to enter as an apprentice in the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio, where, during the six years
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Leonardo da Vinci built the cannon with three embrasures
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In the year 1486 he was attracted by the flight of the birds
and the result of the studies led him to outline the principles of Aeronautics. -
Leonardo da Vinci invention the bicycle in the year 1490
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The square of the circle reached by Leonardo da Vinci The Man of Vitruvio is the drawing made by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo de Vinci created The Last Supper, his best work, the most serene and far from the temporal world.
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Leonardo Da Vinci's fascination with the sea spurred many designs for aquatic exploration.
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In 1508, the first one to observe that when introducing the head in a glass container with water the vision was modified.
Over the years different researchers perfected this ancient theory to what we know today as contact lenses. -
His anatomical studies collected in the "Anatomical Manuscript A"
They focus on osteology and myology, and their plates reflect the attempts to understand human functioning. -
At the end of 1513, Leonardo carried out his anatomical investigations in the Hospital of the Holy Spirit in Rome,
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He was forced to give up his studies when in 1515, he was accused of sacrilegious practices and Pope Leo X prohibited him from entering the Hospital, thus truncating his anatomical career.
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Designed the glider, it constituted the first description of controlled flight, similar to the later development of aviation by means of spectacular delta wings.
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It is the portrait that most literature has generated throughout the history of art; has given rise to stories, novels, poems and even operas.
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On May 2, 1519, he died in the castle of Cloux in France. He was buried in the chapel of Saint-Hubert at the Chateau de Amboise.
