The first division into major and minor arts dates back to Leon Battista Alberti's works ( De re aedificatoria, De statua, De pictura ), focusing the importance of intellectual skills of the artist rather than the manual skills ( even if in other forms of art there was a project behind ).

The first known description of an anemometer was given by Leon Battista Alberti around 1450.

In 1450, the Italian art architect Leon Battista Alberti invented the first mechanical anemometer ; in 1664 it was re-invented by Robert Hooke ( who is often mistakenly considered the inventor of the first anemometer ).

* 1404 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian painter and philosopher ( d. 1472 )

In his Della Pictura of 1436, Leon Battista Alberti had argued that multi-figure history painting was the noblest form of art, as being the most difficult, which required mastery of all the others, because it was a visual form of history, and because it had the greatest potential to move the viewer.

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The emergence of these thinkers was attributed to the then rising notion in Renaissance Italy expressed by one of its most accomplished representatives, Leon Battista Alberti ( 1404 – 1472 ): that " a man can do all things if he will.

In the early 15th century, Italian architect Leon Battista Alberti wrote a treatise entitled De Re aedificatoria which theorized methods of building fortifications capable of withstanding the new guns.

* Leon Battista Alberti ( 1404 – 1472 ) was an Italian author, artist, architect, poet, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer, and general Renaissance humanist polymath.

* The Florentine polymath Leon Battista Alberti begins writing the treatise On Painting, in which he argues for the importance of mathematical perspective in the creation of three-dimensional vision on a two-dimensional plane.

* 1485 – Leon Battista Alberti's De Re Aedificatoria ( written 1443 – 52 and published posthumously ) becomes the first printed work on architecture.

* February 18 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian painter, poet, and philosopher ( d. 1472 ))

The astounding list of painters and artists includes the names of Andrea Mantegna, Vicino da Ferrara, Giovanni Bellini, Leon Battista Alberti, Pisanello, Piero della Francesca, Battista Dossi, Dosso Dossi, Cosmé Tura, Francesco del Cossa and Titian.

The first well documented description of a polyalphabetic cipher was formulated by Leon Battista Alberti around 1467 and used a metal cipher disc to switch between cipher alphabets.

He had the famous Tempio Malatestiano rebuilt by Leon Battista Alberti.

* The 13th century cathedral ( San Francesco, best known as Tempio Malatestiano ) was originally in Gothic style, but was transformed by order of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta according to the designs of Leon Battista Alberti and never completed.

Leon Battista Alberti wrote a savage and pessimistic Latin satiric dialogue, Momus, ( ca.

Classicism in architecture developed during the Italian Renaissance, notably in the writings and designs of Leon Battista Alberti and the work of Filippo Brunelleschi.

In the 15th century Leon Battista Alberti was important in theorizing many of the ideas for painting that came to a fully realised product with Raphael's School of Athens during the High Renaissance.

He owned books by influential Italian Renaissance architects such as Sebastiano Serlio and Leon Battista Alberti and his library contained books by French architects, sculptors, illustrators and architectural theorists such as Jean Cotelle, Philibert de l ' Orme, Abraham Bosse, Jean Bullant, Salomon de Caus, Roland Fréart de Chambray, Hugues Sambin, Antoine Desgodetz, and John James's translation of Claude Perrault's Treatise of the Five Orders.

In discussing Leon Battista Alberti's use of pilasters, which Alberti reintroduced into wall-architecture, Rudolf Wittkower wrote, " The pilaster is the logical transformation of the column for the decoration of a wall.

The German stance was altered radically after 10 February when Leon Trotsky, despite the weakness of the Bolsheviks ' position, broke off negotiations, hoping revolutions would break out in the German Empire and change everything.

Frustrated with continued German demands for cessions of territory, Leon Trotsky, Bolshevik People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs ( more or less Foreign Minister ), and head of the Russian delegation, on February 10, 1918, announced Russia's withdrawal from the negotiations and unilateral declaration of the ending of hostilities, a position summed up as " no war — no peace ".

Appointed a member of the President's Council on Bioethics in 2001 and fired in February 2004, reportedly for her public disagreements and political differences with Council chair Leon Kass and the Bush Administration, particularly on the issue of therapeutic cloning.

* February 6 – Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film mogul ( b. 1877 )

* February 24 – Leon Constantine, British Leeds United footballer

* February 3 – Leon Schlumpf, Swiss Federal Councillor

* February 28 – Leon Neil Cooper, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

* February 16 – King Afonso III of Portugal and King Alfonso X of Castile sign the Badajoz Convention, determining the border between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Kingdom of Leon, and ensuring Portuguese sovereignty over Algarve.

* Leon B. Plantinga: Clementi: His Life and Music ( Oxford University Press, February 1977 )

Leon Schlumpf ( February 3, 1925 – July 7, 2012 ) was a Swiss politician and a former member of the Swiss Federal Council ( 1979-1987 ).

Chacon would go on to win five in a row in 1982, including a rematch victory over Arturo Leon, which kept him as the number one challenger, but then a dramatic development outside the ring would change his life forever: Chacon's wife, Valerie Chacon, flew to Hawaii on February of that year, hoping to convince him to leave boxing and move there if she found them good jobs.

Leon Festinger ( May 8, 1919 – February 11, 1989 ), was an American social psychologist, responsible for the development of the theory of cognitive dissonance, social comparison theory, and the discovery of the role of propinquity in the formation of social ties as well as other contributions to the study of social networks.

* February 15 – Leon Spinks defeats Muhammad Ali by decision in 15 rounds to win the world heavyweight title.

The winner of the fight was later awarded the WBC championship belt as the mandatory title defence didn't materialise when Leon Spinks ( who had taken the title from Ali in an upset win on February 15, 1978 ) chose a rematch against Ali instead of fighting Norton for the WBC-title.

Neal Leon Cassady ( February 8, 1926 – February 4, 1968 ) was a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic movement of the 1960s.

* Christine-Alix de Massy ( Noghès ) ( Monaco, 8 July 1951-Nice, 15 February 1989 ), married firstly in Monaco on 14 February 1972 and divorced in 1976 Charles Wayne Knecht ( born Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, 23 November 1944 ), and had one son, and married secondly on 25 March 1988 Leon Leroy, without issue:

After Leon Trotsky was deported from the Soviet Union in February 1929, his first residing place in exile was a house in Büyükada, the largest of the Princes ' Islands, where Trotsky lived for four years between 1929 and 1933.

After his deportation from the Soviet Union in February 1929, Leon Trotsky also stayed for four years on Büyükada, his first station in exile.

He spent a year lecturing at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Nicaragua in Leon, Nicaragua, beginning in February 2008.

Gary Leon Ridgway ( born February 18, 1949 ) is an American serial killer known as the Green River Killer, convicted of 48 separate murders and confessed to nearly double that number.

DES was first synthesized in early 1938 by Leon Golberg, then a graduate student of Sir Robert Robinson at the Dyson Perrins Laboratory at the University of Oxford, based on a formulation of Wilfrid Lawson at the Courtand Institute of Biochemistry, led by Sir Edward Charles Dodds at Middlesex Hospital Medical School of the University College London of the University of London, and a report of its synthesis was published in Nature on February 5, 1938.