Thursday, July 18, 2013


Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
1452–1519 25-01-10-Image-8-505001525
400 years before the French. It is a precursor to what we consider a
machine gun, with multiple barrels firing all at once. Da Vinci 
invented the pivoting scissors by bolting two knives together for 
shearing cloth.His sculptures are not as well known as those of 
Michelangelo, but da Vinci envisioned a gigantic horse sculpted 
out of poured bronze, which was impossible to make with the
 technology of his day (the sculpture would 
have broken apart under its own weight). But it was completed in 1998 and there are three 
models of it around the world, one in Milan, Italy, one in 
Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA, and one based in Florence, Italy that is 
shipped around the world for display. They are 24 feet high and the largest horse 
statues ever constructed.
Da Vinci was also a pretty good painter.
William Shakespeare
1564–1616
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