The most famous invention of Leonardo da Vinci Bashny.Net

Leonardo da Vinci - the great Italian artist (painter, sculptor, architect) and scientist (anatomist, mathematician, physicist, naturalist), a brilliant representative of the "universal man».
They called him a magician, a servant of the devil, an Italian Faust and divine spirit. He was ahead of his time for several centuries. Surrounded by legends during the life of the great Leonardo - a symbol of the boundless aspirations of the human mind ...





1. The Vitruvian Man
The famous figure, accompanied by explanatory inscriptions made by Leonardo da Vinci around 1490 and placed in one of his journals. It depicts a nude male figure in two superimposed positions: divorced in hand with his hands and feet, inscribed in a circle; divorced with his hands and feet together information, enclosed in a square. Drawings and text are sometimes called canonical proportions.



2. The wheel lock
Only his invention has received recognition during his lifetime - wheel lock pistol (key plant). At the beginning of wheel-lock pistol was little widespread, but by the middle of the XVI century, gained popularity among the nobility



3. Sfumato
Leonardo realized and embodied a new painting technique. His line has the right to blur, because the way we see it. He realized the phenomenon of light scattering in the air and the occurrence of sfumato - haze between the viewer and the image of the object, which softens the contrasts of color and lines. As a result, the realism in painting went to a qualitatively new level.



4. Tank
"I'm going to do closed wagons which are safe, and they can not be attacked; a car that is not afraid to attack a large number of the enemy in violation of its order and its artillery. Behind the chariots must follow the Marines, without the risk of damage or other barriers "regarding the idea of ​​Leonardo sowing panic and destruction among enemy troops was embodied in its design shaped car turtle, with reinforced metal plates on it from the inside and has a turret weapons. The car had to be operated 8 people, to drive the wheels.



5. Lightweight, portable bridges for the army.
This type of bridge, invented by Leonardo da Vinci, could be useful to the military at the time. Consisting of a single span bridge was attached to the shore of a vertical hinge, allowing it to rotate. The advantages of such a device - efficiency in the deployment.



6. The self-propelled carriage
The car made of wood according to the drawings of Leonardo was built in 2004. Scientists one of the museums in Italy ideas embodied in the life of a genius, to everyone's surprise, the mechanism to work exactly as suggested by Da Vinci.



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