Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci- Learning English

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci

1452–1519 

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