Leonardo Da Vinci

It has been suggested that Leonardo's character stopped him from finishing anything; because he was interested in so many things, he always wanted to discover and know everything

Remember that Leonardo wrote from right to left - and that is true of the pictures here as well as the words!

eonardo had an idea too for a coat that had a leather bag to hold air so you could stay under water for some time.

The machine flew farther than the first flight by the American Wright brothers' aeroplane in 1903!

Leonardo was a great thinker and inventor; he also liked to have fun and to stretch his mind with word and number games.

This was hundreds of years before fridges were invented so bodies did not stay fresh for long. So when he wanted to understand all the veins of the body Leonardo had to cut up two bodies, one after the other, be

In Florence, perhaps in 1507 or 1508, Leonardo was able to cut up some bodies of people who had just died.

None of the figures wore clothes because he wanted to show clearly what happened to their arms, backs and legs as they worked.

Leonardo wanted to use these studies in two ways - first for his painting and second to control the movement of water and to make machines powered by water.

More than this, though, Leonardo believed that numbers were a part of all things in the world and he said that 'without them nothing can be done.'