Leonardo Da Vinci Accomplishments

Leonardo’s Unprecedented Work in Science Leonardo da Vinci was a skilled artist of the Renaissance. He was the painter of several masterpieces that are well-known to this day including the famous “Mona Lisa” and “The Last Supper.” However, these famous art pieces are not all that da Vinci is remembered for. Along with being a creative artist, Leonardo da Vinci was also an innovative scientist. Leonardo’s unprecedented work in science was apparent in both his studies of anatomy and his various inventions. One of the ways in which Leonardo was innovative in science was through his studies of anatomy. Leonardo’s fascination with the human body is evident in many of his pieces of art. For da Vinci to be an effective artist he believed he must better understand the body. Da Vinci wasn’t the only artist to have believed this either. Lorenzo Ghiberti was known to have said that “the painter should ‘know anatomy’”(Kemp, Leonardo 92). To get a deeper understanding
Some of Leonardo’s most recognizable inventions come in the form of war machines. Most of the drawings we see today are of the crossbow and catapult. The most famous being the catapult (Heydenreich 95). Da Vinci based many of his doodles on simple machines. He was known to have incorporated levers, pulleys, and wheels into most of his inventions. Different forms of levers were used when he began to study human flight. Leonardo was fascinated with the idea of flight and set aside much of his time to study flying machines and the idea of human flight. His many sketches of flying machines were based on the wings of birds and bats. In one of Leonardo’s illustrations he has a flying machine that “has reticulated wings like a bat’s, a fanned-out tail like a bird’s, and a cockpit or framework shaped rather like a kayak”(Nicholl 150). His drawing was later believed to be what is known today as a