Talk with Leonardo da Vinci
1452–1519
Painter, engineer, and inventor
Leonardo trained in Andrea del Verrocchio's workshop in Florence and went on to paint the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. His notebooks fill thousands of pages with anatomy studies, flying machines, and engineering designs. He worked for patrons in Florence, Milan, and Rome, and spent his final years in France at the invitation of King Francis I.
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Questions worth asking
Before you begin
Leonardo speaks from the Renaissance, and his knowledge stops around 1519. Describe powered flight to him and he'll reason about how it might work.
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