Leonardo da Vinci, the father of Architecture »
Posted By andieaw 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Arts & EntertainmentAs an engineer, an architect, the builder, Leonardo conceived ideas vastly ahead of his own time, conceptualizing a helicopter, a tank, concentrated solar power, a calculator, and the double hull, and outlining a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics. Check out the rest there!
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dexlovex27 months, 2 weeks ago
Over four thousand pages of manuscript that we have, shows that he was a man of all so many talents including that of a paleontologist.
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SonOfTheMask7 months, 2 weeks ago
Andie, thanks for the heads up. I have been fortunate enough to have seen several television shows about Da Vinci over the years that have gone into detail on his amazing legacy. Truly one of the great minds of the ages.
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andieaw7 months, 2 weeks ago
Yes, I think Leonardo is all around there... Scientist, Architect, Engineer, Inventor, what else.... I respect him as one of maestro!
to SonOfTheMask: no problem dude :)
to BronxBomber: it depends on how we use that weapons, right?? :)
thanks all!
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1-2-Oscar7 months, 2 weeks ago
To characterize da Vinci as "the Father of Architecture" ignores the thousands of years of architectural achievement which preceded him, and diminishes the importance of some of the world's greatest structures. I would rather vote for the man or men, for example, who designed the Roman Pantheon, with its colossal dome, an apparently unsupported vault which dwarfed anything built in antiquity or even for nearly two thousand years afterward.
Architecture did not begin with da Vinci, and his importance is lessened by the fact that many of his ideas could not be implemented with the technology available in his time. That compares badly to someone like James Otis, whose invention of the elevator had a greater impact on how people built and how they lived--because his idea was immediately practical.
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