HOW IS THE RENAISSANCE HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT? – Changes in the Arts and Science
Leonardo’s notebooks Leonardo was interested in many different subjects – biology, botany, engineering, geology and mathematics. He wrote thousands of pages of notebooks in which he kept his ideas. He wrote left-handed backwards so it was difficult to read what he wrote. Here are some of his drawings of people and body parts.
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1. Leonardo dissected dead bodies. How would that help him in drawing these?
2. How would these drawings help him when he was painting?
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Go onto YouTube and look up ‘Miss Stout’s History Class Leonardo da Vinci’.
Who will be the expert on Leonardo da Vinci?
Tank How do these show that Leonardo was well ahead of his time? Wing detail
