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Leonardo da Vinci was born in the 15 April in 1452 at
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His sketch of a catapult was created using pen and ink on paper, and the sketch itself is accompanied with explanatory notes in Da Vinci's own unmistakable hand.
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This sketch ranks at the very top of Leonardo da Vinci’s several innovations related to transportation and locomotion.
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He was apprenticed to the sculptor and painter Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence and in 1478 he became an independent master
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Leonardo is most famous for his skills as an artist, however his insatiable curiosity led to a fascination in an immense number of subjects, including science, architecture invention and engineering.
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Leonardo was the first to draw the parachute that looked modern.It had long 7 meter wodden poles that form a triangle.
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Leonardo Di Vinci sketched the flying machine (helicoLeonardopter) in 1485.It was the most popular one during the renaissance time his favourite one.
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It was a painting of a male figure in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart inside both a square and a circle.
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One of the most famous artworks in the world, painted by Leonardo da Vinci probably between 1495 and 1498 for the Dominican monastery Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan.
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Leonardo painted the Mona Lisa in 1503 and it now is located in the Louvre Museum today.
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Leonardo da Vinci died on 2 May 1519 because of stroke.He was buried at Chapel of Saint-Hubert, Amboise, France.
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For centuries after his death, thousands of pages from his private journals with notes, drawings, observations and scientific theories have surfaced and provided a fuller measure of a true "Renaissance man."
