Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is considered the worlds greatest genius or the ultimate Renaissance man (someone good at everything). He was an Artist, Inventor, and Scientist whose famous works range from the Monalisa, The Last Supper, and the Vitruvian during the Italian Renaissance. Leonardo made an immense contribution to the study of medicine, science, and art with a voice of reason, logic, and science in a world of superstitions.
Contributions to art
He excelled in drawing, painting, and sculpture, the Monalisa and The last super are among his most famous.
Inventor and Scientist
Leonardo's journal was filled with over 13000 pages of how he observed the world and drew pictures and designs of helicopters, war machines, musical instruments, and hang gliders.
He studied the human body and drew muscles, tendons and the human skeleton. He also had detailed pictures o the heart, arm and other organs.
I think upper class boys were expected to be able to read
lower class people were the ones not to learn
Evidence suggests that the Minoans disappeared so suddenly because of the massive volcanic eruption in the Santorini Islands. Excavations there have uncovered Akrotiri, a Minoan town which was buried in this eruption, one of the largest in recorded history. The eruption was only 70 miles from Crete, the center of the Minoan civilization. Recent evidence suggests that the Santorini eruption was up to 10 times more powerful than the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883. It caused massive climatic disruption and the blast was heard over 3000 miles away.
We know now that the Santorini eruption and the collapse of the volcanic cone into the sea caused tsunamis which devastated the coasts of Crete and other Minoan coastal towns. Radiocarbon dating shows that a large tsunamis Crete at the same time as the Santorini eruption.
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