Leonardo Da Vinci + Gravity

                                                                                        
    Every one knows who Leonardo Da Vinci is because of his famous art work. Two of his most famous art pieces that he is very well known for are the Mona Lisa and Last Supper. But not many people including my self know who Leonardo Da Vinci really was or how incredibly smart and talented he was. Leonardo Da Vinci wasn't just an artist but made amazing discoveries in various other fields. These field include Flight, Engineering, Geology, Mathematics, Optics, and Botany. It is quite amazing the contributions that he has made to all these fields discovering things in his time that no one thought of or realized until much later. From this event some of the most fascinating things that caught my attention were his discovery of Gravity and his ability to calculate it with such accuracy without the superior mathematics that Galileo and Newton used. Along with that, the way he incorporated century of gravity into his art work is just beyond fascinating and impressive. While calculating gravity he was also able to visualize and relate it to clouds and hail, while at the same time deducing that the cloud travels 16 times faster than hail falling 1 mile. He was able to visualize and draw out in his notes all these different experiments for how he sees these things working out. It is definitely incredible to see the things that he was able to accomplish with the limited resources that he had in his time. Such incredible potential and definitely set up all those different specialities with valuable knowledge. Matthew Landrus and Claire Farago did an amazing job talking about Leonardo Da Vinci and how his work relates to what Newton explain nearly 200 years later.




sources:

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/leonardo-da-vincis-forgotten-experiments-explored-gravity-as-a-form-of-acceleration

Broad, William J. “A Doodle Reveals Da Vinci’s Early Deconstruction of Gravity.” The New York Times, 17 Feb. 2023, www.nytimes.com/2023/02/17/science/leonard-da-vinci-gravity.html. 


Kemp, M. (2019, July 16). Leonardo da Vinci’s laboratory: Studies in flow. Nature News. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02144-z 

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