Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 and died on May 2, 1519.He was multi-talented Italian Renaissance Roman Catholic being an architect, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, inventor, geometer, musician and painter. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time.
Da Vinci is famous for his Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, the latter is the subject of controversy in the best seller book and box office hit controversial, the DA VINCI CODE. His ideas were ahead of his own time which include among others the invention of a helicopter, a tank, the use of concentrated solar power, the calculator, a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics. He greatly advanced the state of knowledge in the fields of anatomy, astronomy, civil engineering, optics, and the study of water (hydrodynamics).
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