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Introduction march 27, 2015 Josh beyer, Informational Essay
In the days of the renaissance, notary(s) where common upon the government of florence, In Fact one of the most famous among the hierarchy,Ser Piero, had a wife that bore a son, this child wore the name of Leonardo da vinci. Ser Piero, Ser Piero da firenze ( father of the notary), and the peasant grandmother where the only people to witness the birth of this illegitimate baby, “ A quick footnote was penned with haste at the bowel of the paper telling the date and time of the delivery” The famous biographer Vasari tells of in his book. On april fourteenth 1452, baby Leonardo began his life as an illegitimate. No one really knows what inspired him to do his work for it could have been as simple as a marriage chest or the tapestries on a church. Years fell over Leonardo as Ser Piero grew impatient so he brought him to the bohtege of Andrea del …show more content…
Thousands of pages were filled with mechanical wonders and odd scriptures of botanised or dissected corpses. He was fascinated by mechanical engineering, in fact over half of his codex was dedicated to just mechanics. Most of his drawings of mechanical designs were crude and the failed on the first test. but yet proved to be quite useful in the grand scheme of things. A great few of these inventions hit the right time and worked elegantly and exactly how intended while others fell apart. The le bene glider worked infected it was the first time man ever flew in all of recorded history, and my proof lies in the pages of Leo's note book where a footnote was penned clearly stating that the glider had been tested on a church tower near florence in 1488. One of the other most remarkable of these “inventions” was the undici canna fucile which proved effective against targets like concrete