What is Leonardo da Vinci remembered for, apart from his paintings?
The Italian Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) produced many drawings, paintings (including the Mona Lisa) and statues. And he seems to have found time to do almost everything else. He was a mathmatician, an architect and an engineer. He made many discoveries about light, heat and friction. He produced theories about the movement of the earth and started the classification of animals into vertebrates and invertebrates. He also invented many things, not all of which worked. His inventions were far ahead of his time: one of them, for instance, was for a flying machine very much like our modern helicopter and another was for an armoured fighting machine like the tank.
