Leonardo also studied and drew the anatomy of many animals, dissecting cows, birds, monkeys, bears, and frogs, and comparing in his drawings their anatomical structure with that of humans.

He studied there under Luca Pacioli, a friend of Leonardo da Vinci.

Chrysoloras arrived in the winter of 1397, an event remembered by one his most famous pupils, the humanist scholar Leonardo Bruni, as a great new opportunity: there were many teachers of law, but no one had studied Greek in Italy for 700 years.

It is not known with whom he studied violin though it has been speculated that he was a pupil of Leonardo Brugnoli or Bartolomeo Laurenti, but it is certain that he studied composition with Giacomo Antonio Perti ( Schnoebelen and Vanscheeuwijk 2001 ).

A gifted pupil, he was then sent to Naples in 1726 where he studied church music under Francesco Durante and opera under Leonardo Leo.

Vitruvius also studied human proportions ( Book 3 ) and his canones were later encoded in a very famous drawing by Leonardo da Vinci ( Homo Vitruvianus, " Vitruvian Man ").

Leonardo da Vinci studied the Flower of Life's form and its mathematical properties.

* The comic strip, cartoon and movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle character Leonardo is named after Leonardo da Vinci, by the comic's creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird who had studied art history .< ref >

For much of his life, Leonardo was fascinated by the phenomenon of flight, producing many studies of the flight of birds, including his c. 1505 Codex on the Flight of Birds, as well as plans for several flying machines, including a light hang glider and a machine resembling a helicopter.

Although never successful in creating a " flying machine ", Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452 – 1519 ) was a keen observer of the anatomy and flight of birds, and made numerous notes and sketches on his observations as well as sketches of various " flying machines ".

Leonardo da Vinci's ( 15th c .) dream of flight found expression in several designs, but he did not attempt to demonstrate his ideas by actually constructing them.

Indeed, it was not until 1902 when Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo developed his own zeppelin airship, with which he solved the serious balance problems the suspending gondola had shown in previous flight attempts.

After the plane was bombed, Leonardo Leonardi, a spokesperson for the Italian Embassy in Paris, said that the embassy believed that six Italians were on the flight.

George R. Pond and Cesare Sabelli flew a Bellanca Pacemaker, named Leonardo da Vinci and powered by a Wright J-6 Whirlwind engine, in an attempted non-stop flight from FBF to Rome, but were forced to land at Lahinch, Ireland, after 32: 00 hours due to a fuel system problem.

The Leonardo module was launched and returned on the previous shuttle flight, STS-102, in March.

The main purpose of STS-105 was the rotation of the International Space Station crew and the delivery of supplies utilizing the Italian-built Multi Purpose Logistics Module ( MPLM ) Leonardo on its second flight ( STS-102, STS-105 ).

* July 23 – Three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijack El Al Flight 426, a Boeing 707 with 48 other people on board, during a flight from London Heathrow Airport in the United Kingdom to Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport in Rome, Italy, and divert it to Algiers Airport in Dar El Beïda, Algeria, just outside Algiers.

Yuri Gidzenko, Expedition 1 flight engineer aboard the Multipurpose Logistics Module ( MPLM ), Leonardo.

Multi Purpose Logistics Module ( MPLM ) Leonardo on its 4th flight, 7th MPLM overall, carrying:

Leonardo da Vinci's dream of flight found expression in several designs, but he did not attempt to demonstrate flight by literally constructing them.

It is supposed that Leonardo originally copied the wings from those of a bird in flight, but they have since been lengthened by a later artist

The album follows the history of airborne exploration, from the mythological flight of Daedalus and Icarus to escape the labyrinth of the Minotaur in " Too Close To The Sun ", through Leonardo da Vinci's search to design a flying machine, or ornithopter, in long-time Project drummer Stuart Elliott's " One Day To Fly ", until finally mankind's aspirations for space exploration placed on the shoulders of a single astronaut in " So Far Away " and the subsequent superpower race to put a man on the moon in " Apollo ", a track backed by John F. Kennedy's famous speech of May 25, 1961.

Steven and Vicki have found further evidence of his meddling in his TARDIS: a journal recording his meeting with Leonardo da Vinci to discuss powered flight, providing anti-gravitational discs to help the ancient Celts build Stonehenge, and using time travel to collect a fortune in compound interest from a bank.

Leonardo da Vinci researched the wing design of birds and designed a man-powered aircraft in his Codex on the Flight of Birds ( 1502 ).

Leonardo da Vinci wrote the following on Cerastes: This has four movable little horns ; so, when it wants to feed, it hides under leaves all of its body except these little horns which, as they move, seem to the birds to be some small worms at play.

McQuarrie spent the next several years dividing his time between rewriting studio movies ( such as Singer ’ s X-Men ) and developing a screenplay on the life of Alexander the Great, written with Peter Buchman, for Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Leonardo was also used to investigate social cognition and Theory of Mind abilities on robots with application to human-robot collaboration, in addition to developing social learning abilities for robots such as imitation, tutelage, and social referencing.

Leonardo and Alberti are representatives and almost a compendium in themselves of all that intellectual vigour of the Renaissance age, which in the 16th century took to developing itself in its individual parts, making way for what has by some been called the golden age of Italian literature.

Prevailing consensus is that Galileo Galilei made the first attempts at developing a theory of beams, but recent studies argue that Leonardo da Vinci was the first to make the crucial observations.

In 1502, Leonardo produced a drawing of a single span bridge as part of a civil engineering project for Ottoman Sultan Beyazid II of Constantinople.

In 1502 Leonardo da Vinci produced a drawing of a single-span bridge over the Horn as part of a civil engineering project for Sultan Bayezid II.

According to Leonardo Troyano, " his capacity for creation, invention and research and his non-conformity with existing ideas and doctrines made him one of the most notable engineers in the history of engineering ".

Examples from history include cave paintings, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Greek geometry, and Leonardo da Vinci's revolutionary methods of technical drawing for engineering and scientific purposes.

A smaller scale version of Leonardo da Vinci's Golden Horn Bridge was brought to life in 2001 near Oslo, Norway by the contemporary artist Vebjørn Sand, the first civil engineering project based on a Leonardo da Vinci sketch to be constructed.

* Leonardo da Vinci's flying machines and ships are early examples of drawing from nature in engineering.

* Fernández Troyano, Leonardo ( 2003 ) Bridge engineering: a global perspective sobre el agua, London: Thomas Telford, ISBN 0-7277-3215-3

* Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, inventor ( several engineering fields )

Martin Kemp notes that the hydraulic engineering in the preparatory drawing in the British Museum dates the composition to around 1507 – 8, when Leonardo was making similar studies in the Codex Atlanticus.

Throughout their existence they have accommodated two study areas for students, two snack bars and a photocopy processing centre, several sport and recreation activities, get-togethers, important events such as academic lectures, musical events, photography and computer fairs, an engineering fair which earned reputation at the national level, a student support and career opportunities office and a support service for exchange students under the Socrates / Erasmus / Leonardo programmes.

Anagrams are also often used in fiction for character aliases, such as Tom Marvolo Riddle = I am Lord Voldemort, Leonardo da vinci = O Draconian Devil, The Mona Lisa

A drawing of a design for a flying machine by Leonardo da Vinci ( c. 1488 ).

File: Leonardo da vinci, Study for the Burlington House Cartoon. jpg | Leonardo da Vinci-The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and the Infant Saint John the Baptist (' The Burlington House Cartoon ') ( c. 1499 – 1500 )

Before meeting Cesare, Leonardo had worked at the Milanese court of Ludovico Sforza for many years, until Louis XII of France drove Sforza out of Italy.

For example, Leonardo Da Vinci noticed discrepancies with the use of the biblical flood narrative as an explanation for fossil origins:

Drawing of Isabella in her youth for an intended portrait by Leonardo da Vinci

* 1963 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C.

Nevertheless, Leonardo treated him with great indulgence, and he remained in Leonardo's household for the next thirty years.

Despite the recent awareness and admiration of Leonardo as a scientist and inventor, for the better part of four hundred years his fame rested on his achievements as a painter and on a handful of works, either authenticated or attributed to him that have been regarded as among the masterpieces.

The novelist Matteo Bandello observed Leonardo at work and wrote that some days he would paint from dawn till dusk without stopping to eat and then not paint for three or four days at a time.

Leonardo is known to have designed sets for pageants with which these may be associated.

Since Leonardo wrote with his left hand, it is probable that it was easier for him to write from right to left.

Aspects of his work on the studies of anatomy, light and the landscape were assembled for publication by his pupil Francesco Melzi and eventually published as Treatise on Painting by Leonardo da Vinci in France and Italy in 1651 and Germany in 1724, with engravings based upon drawings by the Classical painter Nicholas Poussin.

The 19th century brought a particular admiration for Leonardo's genius, causing Henry Fuseli to write in 1801: " Such was the dawn of modern art, when Leonardo da Vinci broke forth with a splendour that distanced former excellence: made up of all the elements that constitute the essence of genius ..." This is echoed by A. E. Rio who wrote in 1861: " He towered above all other artists through the strength and the nobility of his talents.

In terms of global significance, the first wheellock musket in Europe was sketched by Leonardo da Vinci around 1500 AD, although no use of metal flint for gunpowder weapons were known before that point in Europe.

Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci.

'" Fortescue cited Leonardo Bruni for his statement that " virtue alone produces happiness.

Later the politician and thinker Leonardo Bruni argued for the active life, or " civic humanism ".

Although the Renaissance saw revolutions in many intellectual pursuits, as well as social and political upheaval, it is perhaps best known for its artistic developments and the contributions of such polymaths as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, who inspired the term " Renaissance man ".

Ludovico Sforza ( known as Ludovico il Moro, famous for taking Leonardo da Vinci into his service ) was defeated in 1500 by the French army of Louis XII of France-see Italian Wars.

Although some animals ( dolphins and bats ) have used sound for communication and object detection for millions of years, use by humans in the water is initially recorded by Leonardo Da Vinci in 1490: a tube inserted into the water was said to be used to detect vessels by placing an ear to the tube.