...A short time ago, a specialist in the area of engineering wanted to see if the designs created by Leonardo da Vinci were unique inventions created by him and which has given him much reputation as a genius, not only in the area of painting, but also as inventor. Leonardo da Vinci was a great mechanic and an expert in architecture, which caught the attention of experts in the area of engineering decided to build two of the many designs created by Leonardo da Vinci using plans drawn by the artist. Designs created by these experts in engineering were the flying machine and l-shaped crossbow catapult. The expert’s engineers began to build the first flying machine according to the original plans created by Leonardo da Vinci. Them to ensure that...
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...I chose to research and study Leonardo da Vinci and his contribution to the world of art, specifically painting, through the principles of design: perspective, light, shadows, and color. I most certainly believe that Leonardo da Vinci was an artistic genius who was called before the world was to enlighten and bless us with his inspiration from God. According to “Leonardo da Vinci: the complete works”, he was a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician, and writer. As far as his skills as a painter, he was a master with the use of certain elements of design such as perspective, light, shadow, and color. The motivation that led to his exceptional discovery of these important design principles was his observation. He very well implemented the scientific approach to learning. The Museum of Science instructs us that he “took a scientific approach toward understanding how our world works and how we see it.” With curiosity he closely observed nature, animals, people, and landscapes and then went to work...
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...THE LIFE AND DEATH AND FAMOUS WORKS OF LEONARDO DA VINCI Nathan Grissom History 101 Western Civilization to Antiquity-1650 April 16th, 2017 The Life of Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo Da Vinci was born on Saturday April 15th in 1452 at three in the morning in Vinci, Italy. It would be 10:30 PM in today’s time. Da Vinci was known as a renaissance man who had a curious mind and his intellect was high. He was raised in a farmhouse near the hills of Tuscany. He was raised by his father and his stepmothers and around the age of five years old he had moved to his father’s estate where his uncle and grandparents lived. Leonardo would receive little education beyond the usual reading and writing and math. His love for art was...
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...The discovery that I chose was to research the work of Leonardo da Vinci on perspective, light, shadows, and color in painting. I chose to research this topic because art interest me more than any other topic. I have always been into any form of art. I decided to choose this because I wanted to enjoy researching while I did this assignment. It is significant to me also because I am an artist myself and wanted to learn about the different aspects of art that he learned about and applied to his art and why he did so. Leonardo da Vinci found others’ art as motivation and inspiration to him. He also found the things he surrounded himself with daily as inspiration to him. He kept diaries on his work with numerous drawings of anatomy, movement, and...
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...Leonardo DA Vinci, and The human anatomy In writing this report I hope to find out how Leonardo Da Vinci, contributed to the medical world. What he did that still plays a role in Madison today? To do this, one must first know what Leonardo Da Vinci, wanted and at the time he wanted it. During this time most information came from the Bible or through the writings of other scientists. Experiments were not really conducted, and if they were, they were thought of as wrong or incorrect. But Da Vinci knew throw experimentation came answers, throw answers came information, throw information came knowledge. He knew with this knowledge he could find out so much more about the world he lived in. "Leonardo Da Vinci was born on April 15th, 1452 in Vinci,...
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...LEORNADO DA VINCI AND HIS ART [pic] His early childhood Leonardo da Vinci is usually regarded as an artistic genius who possessed great ability in art and understanding of the human physical features and natural sciences as depicted in his art. Leonardo da Vinci was also an accomplished musician and scientist. No other artist of his generation had such exceptional ability and left behind such a wealth of graphic work. He was somehow controversial and as a young man he was accused of being a homosexual (Frank Zöllner 2002 p.7). However even though most of his works were of exceptional quality he had a tendency of not finishing his works and sometimes fled due to social problems. Leonardo da Vinci was born in 15th April 1452 in the village of Tuscan in Florence (Leonardo 2002 p 3). He was the son of ser piero da Vinci, a young lawyer and Caterina. He was of noble origin form his mother’s side (Leonardo 2002 p 4). His mother bestowed upon him not only the beauty of his person but also very many other gifts that placed him high above ordinary people. It is said that he was somehow a genius and usually solved with ease whatever he put his mind to (Leonardo 2002 p 4). When he was still young he enrolled in the study of very many different things but he usually abandoned them once he had jut began to know them. One of the courses he studied was arithmetic and after a few months he had understood it so much that he used to come up with problems and difficulties which...
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...marketing campaign, a new invention not put to market is not an innovation. Many inventions do not succeed due to the lack of market research. Successful innovations often disrupt an established technology, meaning that the established technology becomes obsolete, or much less used, and it us the disruptive innovation which takes over. In this paper we will see how Robotic surgery disrupts the traditional human surgery process. Robotic surgery offers small incisions, instruments that bend further than the human wrist, and an enhanced view due to its magnified 3D high-definition. It is highly beneficial due to its reduced chance of bleeding and infection, fewer post-operative complications and a faster recovery. The only commercialized robot in robotic surgery is the Da Vinci surgical robot, which is a production of Intuitive Surgical. The medical domain has already accepted a lot of innovations, it is a domain that has greatly evolved, our health being one of the most important things in life, a lot of research is made around it, and the government is often part in its funding’s. The most revolutionary innovation in the health care center is robotic surgery, which now looks to disrupt the human procedure of surgery, and replace it with robotic surgery. Robotic surgery however still demands the help of surgeons, who are needed to control the da Vinci, the surgeons operate virtually behind a computer station where they can guide the various arms of the robot, and assist the surgery...
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...Rui Cao English 150 Dec 12 Portfolio reflection paper I have wrote five papers in total during this semester. Each papers I spent a lot of time and I put efforts worked on them a lot. I also did some in-class activities and I did learned something and gained some experiences. Except the activities I did in class, I also went outside and got involved with social community. The first paper I wrote was to analysis a kind of text. I chose a painting draw by Da Vinci. I opened the picture on the website by searching it on Google. When I looking at the picture, and when I described the picture, I included the story and history of this painting in order to understand the picture better. The second paper was museum walkthrough guide. This paper was what I liked the most since it was so interesting and fun to write this paper. I went to the museum on the campus and spent about three hours for observation and taking notes. I walked around the museum and visited the museum from the first floor to the third floor. I brought my notebook and draw a map of this museum. Then I go back home and composed this paper by presenting what I seen and how these exhibitions displayed in the museum. The third paper that I wrote was the investigative journalism. The topic I chose was the green space on the campus. I knew that the green space is not big enough for students to use on the campus thus I decided to asked the mower who works on the lawn area. After I asked him and got the information that...
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...to stop the zombie apocalypse. I also picture Beaker from the Muppet show. He did a wonderful job forming an image of what a scientist probably was to me as a child. He was insecure and he made a mess. My cousin is a scientist so then there is an image of this very stern but sarcastic guy testing and testing and retesting. That image sounds so boring but I’m grateful there are brilliant minds like him out there. Scientist come in many different forms. They study and discover many different things. Over time there have been many types of scientist and they weren’t all wearing lab coats. Leonardo da Vinci was one I found interesting due to my love of art. He combined art and science in his sketches. He has amazing futuristic designs and even envisioned flight. Sadly he was a chronic procrastinator and had frequent disasters with his experiments of new techniques (Leonadoda-Vinci). Galileo Galilei was an Italian scientist who developed the telescopes and started to observe the solar system. He was a pioneer of observations for modern physics and astronomy (Biography). Emanuel Swedenborg was a scientist who lived from (1688-1772). He is very interesting to me as he is one of the founders of Modern Spiritualism. His scientific work had plans for flying machines. He wrote books on chemistry, physics and the first book in Swedish on algebra (Swedenborg)....
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...Dipartimento di Ingegneria Gestionale - Politecnico di Milano Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy Ph. + 39 02 2399 2752, Fax +39 02 2399 2710, e-mail: lucia.tajoli@polimi.it Academic positions: • Associate Professor of Economics at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) since November 2001. • Visiting professor at the Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan (USA) in 2003 and 2007. • Assistant Professor of Economics at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) from May 1996 to October 2001. • Lecturer at Università Bocconi from November 1993 to April 1996. Other current positions: Senior research fellow at the Istituto di Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI), Milano, Italy. Consultant to the Italian National Institute for Foreign Trade (ICE), Roma, Italy. Affiliate researcher at KiTES - Università Bocconi, Milano, Italy. Education: Ph.D. in Economics, Bocconi University (Milan, Italy), 1994. Certificate of Advanced Studies in International Economic Policy Research, Institute of World Economics (Kiel, Germany), 1991. Bachelor Degree in Economics at Bocconi University (Milan,Italy), 1988. Research interests and recent research projects’ topics: International trade networks; Patterns of international specialization; Economic integration between countries; European enlargement process; Economic growth and openness; Trade policy and the WTO. Selected Recent Publications: - The World Trade etwork, with L. De Benedictis, paper presented at the Inaugural Plenary session of the 10th ETSG...
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...THE USS AKRON: A NAVAL AIRSHIP By Wynette C. Perry Airframe Structures and Applications AMNT 270 Instructor R. Xavier Koon Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Extended Campus Patuxent River Resident Center September 27, 2011 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page LIST OF FIGURES iii Chapter I INTRODUCTION 1 II HISTORY OF EARLY FLIGHT 2 III HISTORY OF HOT-AIR BALLOONS 3 IV HISTORY OF THE ZEPPELIN 4 V USS AKRON DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION 5 VI USS AKRON MISSIONS 6 VII SUMMARY 8 VIII CONCLUSION 9 APPENDICES A BIBLIOGRAPHY 12 LIST OF FIGURES Figure Page 1 Ormithopter Flying Machine 2 2 Montgolfier Brother’s 1783 hot-air balloon 3 3 dirigible 4 4 First ring of the uss akron 6 5 USS AKRON DESIGN PLANS 7 6 USS AKRON 8 7 LONG ENDURANCE MULTI-INTELLIGENCE VEHICLE 9 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION The idea of flight has intrigued man for many years. For centuries, man experimented with ways of how to fly; some ideas of how to fly were good, while other ideas were not so good. Early pioneers of flight would...
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...SS1 Individual Essay PM501 3rd Term Independent Learning is the most effective method of study. To what extent do you agree? Table of Contents Abstract...............................................................................................................................3 Introduction.........................................................................................................................4 Advantages of Independent Learning ..............................................................................5 Disadvantages of Independent Learning..........................................................................6 Conclusion..........................................................................................................................7 References.........................................................................................................................8 Abstract In most cases students find it hard to transition to more of an independent learning that is required in Higher Education. This is because there previous studies involved a more hands on approach from there learning staff that were there to help and explain every aspect of there program. Higher Education studies requires them to take there learning in there own hands, to be more self-directed, to make...
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...HUMANITIES 1 (RESEARCH PAPER) HISTORY OF PAINTINGS AND ARTISTS IN THE WORLD ADRIAN M SITCHON PROF. PEREZ 4TH YEAR/BS.HRM/NS (SUBMITTED BY) TABLE OF CONTENT INTRODUCTION HISTORY BODY * EASTERN PAINTING * WESTERN PAINTING * 20th-CENTURY MODERN * AND CONTEMPORARY DEFINITION OF TERMS * FAMOUS PAINTERS * AND BIOGRAPHY * Paintings of famous painters CONCLUSION RECOMMENDATION REFERENCE INTRODUCTION: Painting can be done in a variety of media. For example, Oils, Watercolour, Acrylics, Gouache and Tempera. Paints are made from a pigment, and a binder. Binder is relatively cheap, while pigment is much more expensive. Pigments are a colored powder, made from organic or inorganic materials. (This is different than a colorant, which dyes or stains a color.) All paints use the same basic pigments, but the binder changes. The binder for acrylics dries quickly and the paint is more like a plastic than oils which have an oil based binder and dry slowly. Oil Paints are often built up in layers or glazes. The other paints---Watercolour, Acrylics, Gouache, and Tempera---are water-based, meaning the paint can be diluted with water and clean-up can be done with soap and water. Oil paints, on the other hand, require paint thinner to clean brushes. The number and variety of painting techniques is endless. Besides quality of paint, factors affecting color quality include: paint opacity, glossiness of painting surface...
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...these pioneers. Pioneers of Aviation Introduction From the very first flight of the balloon to the flight of the powered airplane, our early pioneers always looked to make changes for the better. Many of these ideas simply built upon ideas of individuals of the past. These great pioneers were from every part of the world, United States, England, France, Germany, and so many other places. They did not look at aviation as a reason to disagree but rather found that flight would help everyone equally. Balloons Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier are the brothers who invented and flew the first hot air balloon. Born in Annonay, France, they had a passion and drive in science. In 1782 they constructed a balloon that was filled by burning paper to heat the air and lift the balloon off the ground (Montgolfier, 2011). This first flight wasn’t until 1783 when Pilatre de Rozier and Marquis d’Arlandes went 7.5 miles in less than a half hour at a height of 3,000 feet (Montgolfier, 2011). This marked the first balloon flight as well...
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...The Renaissance was a period of monumental change in European history from the period prior. It was a time of knowledgeable excitement with substantial developments in art, literature and science from. A time after the Middle Ages and when the Roman Catholic Church ruled. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how the Renaissance changed the views of the world from the Middle Ages. The Art of the late 13th century depicts stiff 2D, emotionless, gothic styled and chiaroscuro-less pieces. Though there is also a lack of perspective, it can be interpreted that the Byzantine style dominates, making it nearly totally religious and patronized mostly by the church. (Document A, Madonna Enthroned Between Two Angels by Duccio di Buoninsegna). Contra...
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