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  1. 4 days ago · Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest artists and inventors of all time. A new documentary promises to shed unexpected light on him. Mercury - Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the mercury-in-glass thermometer in 1714. For 250 years it was the most precise way to measure temperature.

  2. 3 days ago · 1. Leonardo Was Born Out of Wedlock. Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452, in the small Tuscan town of Vinci, Italy, to Piero da Vinci, a wealthy notary, and Caterina, a peasant woman. Being born out of wedlock affected Leonardo’s early life, as he was not considered a legitimate heir to his father’s wealth or status.

  3. 5 days ago · According to Sarah Burns, Leonardo da Vinci was a lateral thinker: "He made connections across all of these disciplines. Showing multiple things on screen at the same time was a way of, in some ...

  4. 23 hours ago · The Haas Center at the University of West Florida has estimated that between 2023 and 2027, Leonardo's Florida Support Center will have a $62.9 million annual impact on the local economy and ...

  5. 2 days ago · The show includes 160 works from the Royal Collection by names big—Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo—and, if not small, slightly less big—Annibale Carracci, Fra Angelico, Domenico Ghirlandaio.

  6. 4 days ago · Salvator Mundi, painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci that was completed about 1500. It became the most expensive work of art ever sold when it was auctioned at Christie’s, New York, on November 15, 2017, for $450.3 million. The unprecedented sum for a heavily restored painting with questionable.

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  8. 2 days ago · Leonardo da Vinci's eye How the artist and others understood the human soul