The Da Vinci Works

Early life and profession

He was born in 1452, the illegitimate son of Ser Piero di

Antonio in a village near Tuscany, Italy.
Since he had always lived in the countryside, he
worshipped Mother Nature.
He had written 33000 pages worth of notes during his
lifetime, which he handed over to Francesco Melzi.
Only about 6000 pages of these have survived.
They had been written in Italian since Leonardo had no
knowledge of Latin. They were translated for the first
time by Jean Paul Richter.
He wrote in an exceptionally illegible handwriting, which
was deciphered much later as people realized that what
he had written was pure Italian, but in mirror images.
Leonardo did this to make the notebooks available to an
audience of a select level of intelligence.

Profession

His interests included

Painting
Sculpture
Architecture
Geometry
Geology
Engineering Military, Civil and Mechanical
Optics
Anatomy
Botany
Hydrodynamics
Astronomy

IQ
His estimated IQ is 220.
The IQ of a few notable personalities
are
Albert Einstein 160
Galileo Galilei 185
Charles Darwin 165
Leonardos is the highest IQ score
ever achieved by a human adult.

Vinci and Anatomy

Sketch of human
skeleton.
Hardening of
arteries, which was
re-discovered in
1930.
Vitruvian Man

Theories before they were

rediscovered

Nature being inconstant and taking pleasure in

constantly creating new forms and from time to
time the bottom of the sea was raised depositing
these shells in layers. - Relates to evolution. [11]
Light travels in straight lines and has a finite
speed.- Ole Romer in 1676 and Fizeau in
1850s. [1]
To every action there is an equal and opposite
reaction. Newtons Third Law . [2]
Realized that an image coming into the eye is
inverted upside down. Johannes Kepler
rediscovered this in 1604. [3]
Friction is not dependent on the area of contact.
- Law of Friction. [4]

Leonardos Machine Designs

Worlds First Machine Gun

This machine gun was equipped with a remarkable ability to throw. The guns,
once loaded and ready to, guaranteed coverage of a wide range. The hotel
was easy to carry and then, if necessary, could be aimed at a different
target. The height adjustment of cannon fire could be by means of a crank
positioned at the rear of the machine.

Tank which appeared in WW1

in 1919
The tank can be seen as a circular terrestrial. It moves on
four driving wheels driven by a crank and lever system,
as a casemate, can shoot in any direction

Steam Cannon

Architonnerre was
a steam powered
cannon designed
by Da Vinci in his
notebooks long
before it was
invented. [10]

Third Law

Studied perpetual motion

machines and gave the
Newtons Third Law.

In whatever system where the

weight attached to the wheel
should be the cause
of motion of the wheel, without
any doubt the center of
the gravity of the weight will
stop beneath the center of its
axle. No instrument devised by
human ingenuity, which turns
with its wheel, can remedy this
effect. Oh, speculators
about perpetual motion, how
many vain chimeras have you
created in the like quest. Go
and take you place with the
seekers after gold.
Leonardo da Vinci (1494) [5]

First Automobile in History

The famous design that has a self-propelled wagon is, in fact, a
complex system for a robot, a theatrical scenic effect. It had superior
design features, but he never actually made it. At the center, the top
view of the automobile is given. The system is spring loaded,
crossbows are auxiliary systems and the lower wheels are the
exhaust system. The details are designed around the central figure.
Apart from that there are brake systems and anchorage auxiliary
systems. [9]

Robot
The design notes for the robot appear in sketchbooks that were rediscovered in
the 1950s. The robot knight could stand, sit, raise its visor and
independently maneuver its arms. He displayed his "robot" at a
celebration hosted by Ludovico Sfoza at the court of Milan in 1495. [6]

Other Inventions
He found a way to harness solar
power using mirrors. (Taken from Jean
Paul Richters translation of
Leonardos Notebooks)
He drew the helicopter 300 years
before it was invented. (Jean Paul
Richters translation)

Bridge design

In 1502 Leonardo da Vinci made a simple

drawing of a graceful bridge. A Norwegian painter
gave life to this dream.

PRINTER
The press is operated by the
lever on the right which hits
the press with a large
screw. Simultaneously, the
large upper gear turns a pulley,
which pulls under the press
the floor on which to place the
paper. With a single gesture
the press loads the sheet and
gives the page [8]

Swing Bridge
By means of a complex system of gears and rollers,
the bridge is rotated by 90 allowing the passage of
boats. [7]

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Source Wikipedia.
Found in Jean Paul Richters Translations and numerous
referencesof the web including the wikipedia page on Leonardo.
Found directly in the pages of his notebooks. (Picture given on
slide)
Jean Paul Richters Translations and The Oxford Classics The
Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci.
http://www.eoht.info/page/Leonardo+da+Vinci and
Thermodynamics G. Astarita. Page 19
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo's_robot and Rosheim; Mark
Elling. Leonardo's Lost Robots. Springer, 2006, p. 69.
http://www.da-vinci-inventions.com/revolving-bridge.aspx
http://www.museoscienza.org/english/leonardo/modelsexhibited/macchina-leo.asp?id_macchina=63
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/da-vinci-car1.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architonnerre
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci and
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/leonardo/