He was born in 1452 and died in 1519. The future artist's father, Piero of Vinci, a wealthy notary in a 200-year-old family of notaries and landowners, was the most famous person in Florence. But mother Katerina was a simple peasant kopeck piece, which became a fleeting whim of an influential and wealthy signor, although some are inclined to believe that Leonardo da Vinci arrived … from the future.
There were no children in the official Pierrot family, so the boy from 4-5 years old was brought up by his father, while his mother, probably with the appropriate dowry, as was customary, was rushed to marry off to some peasant. Nevertheless, Leonardo seems not their child, not a Florentine, not an Italian or an earthly person in general. This super genius is so strange that it causes scientists not even amazement, but almost awe, always mixed with confusion. Even a general overview of its capabilities plunges researchers into shock: well, a person, even if he is at least seven inches in his forehead (like Leonardo), cannot immediately be a brilliant engineer, artist, sculptor, inventor, mechanic, chemist, philologist, visionary, written handsome man, one one of the best in his time as a singer, swimmer, creator of musical instruments, cantatas, horse rider, fencer, architect, fashion designer. His abilities and capabilities were undoubtedly superhuman. In the "Diaries" by Leonardo da Vinci there are sketches of birds in flight, for which it was necessary to have materials of slow motion photography or filming! Researchers even suggested that Leonardo's sense of vision possessed such a sharpness that it made it possible to see superfast movement - then, of course, he was not a man, because this is not available to any of the people.- then, of course, he was not a man, because for any of the people this is not available.- then, of course, he was not a man, because for any of the people this is not available.
He kept a diary, making notes intended only for himself in small letters, from left to right, also connecting individual words in a sentence as it happens in colloquial speech, and using elements of cursive writing - abbreviations of letters and syllables! In this diary, he in a strange way refers to himself on "you", giving orders and orders to himself as a servant or slave: "Order to show you …", "You must show in your essay …", "Order to make two travel bags …" One gets the impression that it was as if two personalities lived in da Vinci: one is very famous, friendly, not devoid of some human weaknesses, and the other is incredibly strange, secretive, unknown to anyone, who commands and commands Leonardo …
Leonardo da Vinci possessed an accurate and versatile providence of the future, which, apparently, even surpassed the prophetic gift of the famous Nostradamus. Barely covered with a fig leaf of the title - "Riddles with Clues" - intended, according to scientists, for the vigilant Inquisition, his famous "Predictions" paint a terrifying picture of the future, much of which either was already our past or is now our present. Judge for yourself: "People will talk to each other from the most distant countries and answer each other." This is undoubtedly the phone. “People will walk and will not move; they will talk to those who are not, they will hear those who do not speak”- television, tape recording, sound reproduction. "People … will be their own special instantly scatter to different parts of the world,without moving from a place”- transmission of a television image. "You will see yourself falling from great heights without any harm to you" - obviously, skydiving.
"Countless lives will be destroyed, and countless holes will be made in the ground" - here, most likely, the seer speaks of craters from aerial bombs and shells, which really "ruined countless lives." "Oh, how many there will be those who will not be allowed to be born!" - and the ego, no doubt, about abortion; in Russia, for example, there are 3-4 abortions per birth. "Invisible coins will make those who spend them triumph" - an amazing prediction, clearly indicating "electronic money", plastic cards. He even predicts a new flood for people. Moreover, not only water, but also fiery, supplying these prophetic records with frightening drawings.
His inventions and discoveries cover all areas of knowledge (more than 50!), Fully anticipating the main directions of development of modern civilization. Indeed, Leonardo da Vinci is primarily an ecologist. Its main idea is the water cycle in nature, which even modern science became aware of relatively recently. Leonardo rightly considered water to be the main and most important element of all living things and plants, "the blood of the Earth", the source of all life - modern science shares his conviction. But he also knew that man is 90 percent water, although he had absolutely no place to find out.
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Leonardo da Vinci is the inventor of the spacesuit, the submarine, the idea of the steamer, and fins for both the legs and arms. He has a manuscript showing the possibility of diving to great depths without a spacesuit - thanks to the use of a special gas mixture (the secret of which he deliberately destroyed); to invent it, you need to understand well the biochemical processes of the human body, which, of course, were completely unknown in his time! In Leonardo's papers one finds a description even of an amphibian man. It was he who first proposed installing batteries of firearms on armored ships - he submitted the idea of an battleship! Invented a bicycle, a helicopter, a glider that looks like a spearhead, a parachute, tanks (as well as tactics for using them), multiple launch rocket weapons, machine guns, poisonous gases, a smoke screen,retractable ladder.
He proposed a drawing for contact lenses. He knew that the eye does not emit particles of light, as they thought in his time, but perceives them. Discovered the principle of stereoscopic vision. He knows that light does not spread instantaneously, as his century thinks, but moves at a finite speed, which Leonardo is trying to determine. He correctly explains the blue of the sky, discovers the phenomenon of refraction, a magnifying glass, a magnifying glass - 100 years before Galileo. He writes to himself: "Make glasses to see the big moon." Leonardo knows that light and sound travel in the air in the same way. He writes that in nature there is a certain fluid substance that causes lightning and has a greater penetration ability relative to water! The origin of this knowledge is simply mysterious, because it is impossible to obtain it on your own. Leonardo da Vinci, for example, knows very well the works of Archimedes written in Greek, but he does not know the Greek language, and there were no translations of these works into Latin or Italian at that time.
He is constantly sketching three-dimensional drawings and images - like no one before him. He invented textile machines, weaving machines, needle-making machines, monstrously powerful cranes, pipe drainage systems, and arched bridges. It is striking that Leonardo describes in detail machines and mechanisms that simply could not be done in his time due to the fact that they did not know ball bearings at that time.
Leonardo does not believe in popular alchemy, but treats astrology somewhat differently, making an unexpected remark in his notes: "You can talk about the influence of the stars and God." He practiced special psychotechnical exercises, dating back to the esoteric practices of the Pythagoreans and … modern neurolinguistics, to sharpen his perception of the world, improve memory and develop imagination, as if knowing the evolutionary keys to the secrets of the human psyche, still far from being realized in modern man.
Other people like Leonardo da Vinci, humanity simply does not know. But he is still a wonderful magician (contemporaries said - a magician): he can summon a multicolored flame from a boiling liquid, pouring wine into it, easily turns white wine into red. With one blow he breaks the cane, the ends of which are laid on two glasses, without breaking either of them, applies a little of his saliva to the end of the pen - and the inscription on the paper turns black. The miracles that Leonardo shows are so impressive that he is seriously suspected of serving "black magic". In the popular view, Leonardo da Vinci is considered to be one of the geniuses of the Italian Renaissance, which is not even remotely true.
Leonardo is phenomenally unique: neither before him nor after in the history of mankind there has never been such a creature. There were brilliant artists, but not an artist and a sculptor at the same time; brilliant artists and sculptors, but not an artist, sculptor and at the same time an inventor, engineer, scientist, etc. There were, for example, outstanding seers, but not a seer and at the same time an artist, sculptor, singer, architect, maker of musical instruments - like him alone. Who was he? This is the biggest mystery. As you know, answering it, some modern researchers consider Leonardo a messenger of alien, more advanced civilizations, others - a time traveler from the distant future. It seems that the second assumption is more plausible - he knows too well human affairs and the future that awaits humanity.