Born into a time almost 600 years ago he is known as the renaissance man spearheading the change of the times.
Over his life he was commissioned as a artist, the most famous among the mona lisa and the last supper, but his other vast areas of work included inventor, Scientist, Musician, Engineer, Sculptor, Mathematician, Atomonist, Architect, Geologist, Botanist and writer.
Truly and utterly compelled by his wanting to understand and know, and create things that know-one has done seen or come up with before. In his realatively small lifetime he has crammed in a million peoples lifetimes worth of work all in his relentless quest for knowledge and understanding.
The thing that compells me about his works are his abililty to think almost into the future and this is what you can create, they all arent rough sketches either many are full working diagrams and cross sections. The technology at the time simply wasnt up to date with him and many of his works couldnt be made.
In all his life the one thing that he wanted to succeed at more than ever and conquer was that of flight. He often gazed at the sky and saw birds, quoting them in many of his works and wished how we could return there one day. Spending hours and hours studing the anotomy of the wings of birds, how they use them and numerous sketches and devices it is seemed that this task defeated him and he never got the chance to experience what would have been his greatest ever achievment.
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