Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian Renaissance genius, who was good at many things, but most famous as a painter.^[1] He was also a scientist, a mathematician, an engineer, an inventor, an anatomist, a sculptor, an architect, a botanist, a musician and writer. Leonardo was curious about everything in nature. He wanted to know how everything worked. He was very good at studying, designing and making all sorts of interesting things.^[2]

Many people think that Leonardo was one of the greatest painters of all time. Many people think that he was the most talented person ever to have lived.^[1] The art historian Helen Gardner said that no-one has ever been quite like him because he was interested in so many things that he seems to have had the mind of a giant, and yet what he was like as a person is still a mystery.^[3]

Leonardo was born at Vinci which is a small town near Florence in Italy. He was trained to be an artist by the sculptor and painter Verrocchio. He spent most of his life working for rich Italian noblemen. In his last years he lived in a beautiful home given to him by the King of France.

Leonardo could do all sorts of clever things, but he was most famous as a painter. Two of his pictures are among the best-known paintings in the world: the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper. He did many drawings. The best-known drawing is the Vitruvian Man. It is so well known that even Homer Simpson and Garfield have been drawn in a square and a circle to look like the drawing. Leonardo was always thinking of new inventions. Most of his inventions were never made. However, we know his ideas, because he kept notebooks and wrote and drew in them very often. Some of the ideas that he thought of were a helicopter, a tank, a calculator, a robot and solar power.

The Works of Leonardo Da Vinci

Tesla

Tesla (1856-1943) full name Nikcola Tersla. He was born in Smiljan, Croatia on July 10, 1856. Tesla discovered rotating magnetic field (1883). In 1888 he successfully made the first induction motor, which is an electric motor of the most widely used. Tesla also discovered a high frequency alternator alternating current (1889), two-phase generator (1893), system generation, transmission and distribution system of alternating electrical current (1893). Tesla died on January 7 1943 in New York City, New York, United States at the age of 87 years.

Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday (1791-1867) is a physicist from England who managed to find a generator (1831) and electromagnetic induction (1834). Faraday was born in Newington Butts (London-UK) on September 22, 1791, and died August 25, 1867 at Hampton Court, London, England. His ideas and rapidly progressing well after he worked at Humphry Davy, a chemist from England who served as head of the Royal Institution laboratory.

Johannes Kepler

Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was a German astronomer. He discovered the law of Kepler, Kepler telescope inventor, composer star catalog, modern astronomy, and the inventor of the nova (exploding star). Kepler is a supporter of the theory proposed by Copernicus.

Kepler was born in Weilder Stadt, near Stuttgart, Germany, on December 27, 1571 and died on November 15, 1630. At the age of 25 years Kepler published a book entitled "The Mystery cosmography" (1956). The book attracted the attention of Tycho Brahe, a mathematician Roman emperor's palace, so that Kepler was appointed assistant in Observatiorium Benatek, Prague. After Tycho Brahe died, Kepler replaced. Kepler made a list of 1005 star star star complete list has been created Brahe who was originally only 777 stars.