Leonardo Da Vinci

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"Leonardo was a pioneer of creative science. He saw that art and science are closely linked, each giving something to the other. For Leonardo, science without art was sterile, and art without science was absurd. Together, the two could make man a creator, a small model of God. Just as God created the great world of Nature, man could create his own world of " invention" - machines that were unknown in Nature, but based on observation of Nature" Nobody before and after Leonardo, was so versatile, complex and devoted to studying and discovering secrets and  lows of Nature, encompassing space, earth, and all living creatures recognizing their relationships. Thanks to his huge thirst for knowledge, and wanting that his knowledge will one day serve all mankind, he left over thousands of written pages and drawings in his notebooks during the 35 years of work. He was way ahead of his time period, that even today, people examine his legacy.

The scope and depth of his achievements from anatomy is astonishig, he is the first person thanks to dissection and study of the human body, who has understood how the complex mechanism such as the human body works. He precisely drew each organ from a few different angles, described the heart and the bloodstream, and gave the exact description of our skeleton and all muscles from our body. He is considered to be the father of embryology, exact knowledge, which will be studied only three hundreds later,  tahnks to his descoveries and  contributes in this area. His  displays of five-month fetus in the uterus is at the same time an image of great beauty, which represents a masterpiece of art and  masterpiece of scientific observations.

Due to his various interests he couldn’t devote a lot of time to paintings and sculptures, so many of his work were left undone. Newertheless Leonardo left some of the most significant art works of all times, such as The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, which are admired by the whole world. Today, great master of the 15th century is the best known as one of the most significant painter ever, but not many know that he was also a great scientist, inventor, architect, anatomist, musician, and maybe even the most perfect, diverse, interesting mind which ever existed. He kept many of his knowledge to himself. He knew the dangers of the powers of inventions, saying that "there are numberless people who, to satisfy their loss, would destroy God and the whole universe". Because of that, Leonardo was very careful, he wrote from right to left, “writing in the mirror” which makes hard reading his handwriting, and many of his works, had to be again revealed decades and centuries later. After all he is for sure the one of the biggest geniuses who ever lived," artist-scientist, who has explained the relationship between nature and art. Precisely here lies his biggest secret: we maybe today know about nature a lot more from him, but he knew her essence how we will never find out.”