ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -While Leonardo da Vinci is best known as an artist, his work as a scientist and an inventor make him a true Renaissance man.

Detailed explanation-2: -As an engineer, Leonardo conceived ideas vastly ahead of his own time, conceptually inventing the parachute, the helicopter, an armored fighting vehicle, the use of concentrated solar power, a ratio machine that could be used in an adding machine, a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics and the double hull.

Detailed explanation-3: -Leonardo da Vinci trained as a painter during the Renaissance and became a true master of the craft. During the Renaissance, European artists began to study nature more closely with the goal of painting realistic images of the world.

Detailed explanation-4: -Leonardo da Vinci may well have been the greatest inventor during the Renaissance; however he had very little effect on the technology of his time.

Detailed explanation-5: -Leonardo da Vinci, the greatest of all the artist-scientists, once wrote, “To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; Study the art of science.