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I think that Leonardo Da Vinci was a true renaissance man,because of his characteristics, his ideas, and his way of observation. This is easy to see, even when the only things we know about him are his notes (with 19,000 pages missing). For me, all I have seen are the exhibition of the designs he made, but never built, but recently built to show his genius. Many of his ideas leaped hundreds of years, to the point that they fill us with amazement to this day.

If you look at the exhibition, there are plenty of things to be amazed at. Although it doesn't work, it has the exhibition of the first robot in the shape of a human, which Leonardo Da Vinci built with his knowledge of the human body, and his knowledge of machinery. It is clad in the design of the armor of the Italian Knight. It can do several tasks such as sitting up, moving its arms, neck, and an anatomically correct its jaw. It is the fruit of Leonardo's anatomical research. Unfortunately, the robot in the exhibition couldn't do these things, probably because of its price, size and weight. It is so advanced for its age, that NASA is using the design to make their own robot, which is called the "Anthrobot". They are using Leonardo's ideas due to its correct, human like movements.

Leonardo Da Vinci also was the first person to think of the tank. Although never built, is such a remarkable design which works. This idea was outsmarted only 500 years later, in the first world war.

Leonardo Da Vinci revolutionized the way of painting, by using the oil painting to make a more radiant color, which would soon spread all around the world.This way of painting is even used today.

Leonardo Da Vinci advanced many of the concepts and the idea that was being reborn in the Renaissance in too many ways to mention. He was the expertise of so many things. He was the true Renaissance man.