THEA MELODIAS

Perhaps no one in history achieved so much in so many different fields as did Leonardo da Vinci. An outstanding painter, sculptor, and weapons,costumes, amd scientific instruments. he invented the diving bell and tank, and though they could not be built by the materials that time, flying machines. He made important discoveries about the structure of the human body. From his notebooks we can tell that Leonardo approached science and art in the same methodical manner: after studying a problem, he made many sketches that could help him find solutions to the problems. He saw no difference between planning a machine or an invention and painting a picture or a portrait, and he became an expert in every field that interests him.

     Leonardo Da Vinci was born in the town of Vinci, Italy in 1452. His father was a successful government official, and his mother was a peasant girl. Leonardo spent his early life on his family's farm. Free to explore in the fields and streams, he grew to love the outdoors. He bought caged birds in the market place and set them free. He did this because he could not stand to see birds in cages and also because he wanted to learn exactly how birds fly.

     Leoardo was a dreamer, just like how every child started. He became curious and strated to ask questions and tried to find the answers to the questions, then after he thinks of an answer he tried to visualize it through his art, and finally when he answered his own question or when he found the solution he ask him self another problem to solve.

     today most of his inventions and discoveries are the epitome of todays science and technology, and most of his inventions became the basis of today's gadgets. As man started to talk, questions started to form in their heads, until they finds an answer they can never satisfy the unfatomable hunger for knowledge, and leonardo da vinci sets a perfect example for it, as the original Renaissance man.