Leonardo da Vinci was a man ahead of his time, and against all odds prevailed over skeptics and used his ideas to make the modern world what it is today. He was making advancements that we have only mastered six hundred years after his death. He was a genius of his time and a genius of even our modern day. In the 1400's when he was flourishing with new ideas and concepts, people of his town doubted his ideas, saying that they would never work or that he was insane for producing these concepts. After all of these negative thoughts, he still kept working at these wonderful ideas of his that would later influence the modern world. He was born on April 15, 1452 in the village of Vinci, Italy. By the time he was ten, people started to notice his abilities in art, engineering, and architecture. He moved into a workshop of the famous painter, Verrocchio, in Florence. He started my apprenticeship in painting. After working in the workshop for eleven years, at the age of twenty-one he put......
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