Leonardo Da Vinci Then and Now Leonardo Da Vinci was a man ahead of his time that made huge differences in the way that this world has developed. He was a man of many trades, which through the years he mastered such as, a very skilled inventor, painter, scholar, scientist, writer, and anatomist. Without his innovative ideas and inventions I don't know where we would be today. He was born 1452 to an illegitimate son of …showed first 75 words of 341 total…

…showed last 75 words of 341 total…Rocks. By far his greatest work was his notebooks on which he wrote his one and only book The Painter as well as a whole pile of notes on technology, science, human anatomy, architecture which included drawings of all these things. He also invented many things we still use today such as the microscope and the telescope. Leonardo Da Vinci was one of the greatest minds of all time. Where would we be without him?