Da Vinci A Man Of Science - 1608 Words

Leonardo Da Vinci was a man well known for his amazing artwork but not many know that he was also a man of science. Da Vinci was not just an artist he was also an architect, inventor, a naturalist, geologist, an engineer, and an anatomist. He was given the name â€Å"Renaissance man† because of his intellect. Da Vinci was born in Anchiano, Tuscany (which today is known as Italy) on April 15, 1452 until his death on May 2, 1519. When Da Vinci was young his parents were never married to one another. His mother, Caterina Da Vinci was a pheasant while his father, Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci was an attorney and notary. He was the only child the two had together. In Da Vinci’s early career he was never given the proper basic education so by†¦show more content†¦Paintings he made were very precise in detail because he took great pride into getting the landscapes, rocks, etc. to look just right so he never wanted to miss anything. Da Vinci thought that the most powerful force in nature was the movement of water, especially rivers. To Da Vinci, water is a very significant resource that has sculpted landscapes to create its astonishing features over long periods of time (Jones, 2011). He went walking out atop the appellation mountains and what he saw made him surprised because he saw complete beauty in the geographical detail. And that wasn’t all that captured his attention up on the mountains; so did the remains of fossilized prehistoric sea creatures (Birx, n.d.). Fossils caught the attention of Da Vinci because when he first witnessed them he wondered how it was possible for forces on earth to be able to create such a rock. He then realized that what these rocks contained were actually once living organisms that used to swim in the prehistoric sea. Confirmation of this discovery came from one of his secret journals called the Codex Leicester in which he wrote in, between 1504 and 1510. Da Vinci figured out the truth behind fossils due to the fact that the body of the fossil showed evidence of the organisms’ activity. What he did to prove his finding was to use what he already knew about living animals and plug them in to confirm what he learned or was learning about fossils. The