Wed, 15 Apr 2009

April 15th, 1452

Vitruvian Manwas the birthday of Leonardo da Vinci, the model Renaissance Man, whose curiosity, intelligence and raw talent still shine half a millennium later.

It is difficult to overestimate his impact - his paintings hang in the finest museums, the richest man on the planet paid millions for one of his notebooks a little more than a decade ago, and even as mundane a machine as my wife's spinning wheel uses the bobbin and flyer mechanism that he designed to speed up the process of spinning wool into cloth. A bridge designed by Leonardo is only now being constructed across the Bosporus, as only recently have our construction techniques caught up with his vision.

Art, science, medicine, engineering - the boundless imagination of this inspiring legend will surely live forever.

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