Early life (1452–1472)
Birth and background
Leonardo da Vinci, properly named Leonardo di ser Piero … Sjå meir

Despite the recent awareness and admiration of Leonardo as a scientist and inventor, for the better part of four hundred years his fame rested on his achievements as a painter. A handful … Sjå meir

Renaissance humanism recognised no mutually exclusive polarities between the sciences and the arts, and Leonardo's studies in science and engineering are sometimes … Sjå meir

Although he had no formal academic training, many historians and scholars regard Leonardo as the prime exemplar of the "Universal Genius" or "Renaissance Man", an individual of … Sjå meir

Despite the thousands of pages Leonardo left in notebooks and manuscripts, he scarcely made reference to his personal life. Sjå meir

Leonardo was a prolific draughtsman, keeping journals full of small sketches and detailed drawings recording all manner of things that took his … Sjå meir

Leonardo's approach to science was observational: he tried to understand a phenomenon by describing and depicting it in utmost detail and did not emphasise experiments or … Sjå meir