Leonardo Da Vinci (10 page)

techniques

Earth, position of

education

Classical, lack of

formal

self-education

encyclopedias

energy, search for new sources of

engineer-architect

erosion

Euclid

experimentation

Leonardo’s experiments

explorers

eye, structure of

famine

Fazio, Cardan

Feast of Paradise

flight, study of

Florence

Florentine painters’ guild

flying machines

fossils

theories of

France

Francis I, King of France

Freud, Sigmund

Galen

Galileo

Gates, Bill

geography

geology

geometry

Giotto

glasses

Greece

Gutenberg, Johannes

Harvey, William

health, rules for

heart, theories of

helicopter, invention of

heredity, theory of

Hippocrates

history of science

homosexuality

humors, theory of

Huygens, Christian

hydraulics

Icarus

illegitimacy

income

indulgences

influence of Leonardo on other scientists

inheritance

inventions

Islamic scholars

Italian, as “vulgar tongue,”

Italy

jokes

knowledge, unifying theories and principles of

Last Supper, The
(painting)

Latin

Laws of Motion

left-handedness

Leo X, Pope

Leoni, Pompeo

lever, invention of

libraries

life expectancy

light, theories of

linear perspective

literacy

Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci
,
The

Louis XII, King of France

Luther, Martin

Lyell, Charles

Machiavelli, Niccolò

Madrid Codices, The

manuscripts

maps

Masque of the Planets

mathematics

Leonardo’s limited knowledge of

mechanical devices

medical training

Medici

Medici, Lorenzo de’ (the Magnificent)

medicine, medieval

Renaissance

medieval worldview

Melzi, Francesco

Melzi, Orazio

Michelangelo

Microsoft

Middle Ages, life in

Milan

military engineer

mirror-image script

Mona Lisa
(painting)

moon

mortality rates

musical ability

natural philosopher (term)

nature, direct study of

Newton, Isaac

“New World,”

Nostradamus

notary

notebooks, Leonardo’s

arrangement of

described

fate of

publication

readership of

see also under individual codex names

observation skills

Office of the Night

On Floating Bodies

On the Revolutions of Celestial Bodies

On the Structure of the Human Body

Opticae Thesaurus

optics

outer space

Pacioli, Luca

pageants, designs for

painting

Leonardo’s attitude toward

methods

theories on

paintings, Leonardo’s

number of

see also individual paintings

paleontology

paper

patronage

peasants, living conditions

peripheral vision

physiognomy

plague,
see
Black Death

planets

Plato

Pliny

politics, Leonardo’s disinterest in

pranks

Protestant Reformation

pseudosciences

Ptolemy

rats

Rayleigh, Lord

religious beliefs, Leonardo’s

Renaissance

reproductive system

robot

Roman numerals

Rome

rose water perfume

Royal Windsor Folios

Salai

sanitation

Savonarola, Girolamo

scholars

science, state of in Renaissance

Leonardo’s education in

relationship to art

scientia

scientific ideas, origins

scientific method

Scientific Revolution of

scientific vocabulary

scientist, Leonardo’s development as

“scientist” as a term

self-education

Sforza, Duke Ludovico

job application to

overthrown

Sistine Chapel

sixth sense

skeletons

solar eclipses

solar energy

St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome

steam power

submarines

telescope

tides

toilets

Torre, Marcantonio della

torture

Toscanelli, Paolo

trade

travel

unfinished projects

universal theories

universities

University of Pavia

Vatican

vegetarian

Verrocchio, Andrea del

Vesalius, Andreas

Vespucci, Amerigo

Vinci (town)

vision

Vitruvian Man

warfare

water, study of

waves, movement of

weapons

wings

Women, position of in society

anatomy of

Wright brothers

zodiac

zoology