With a curious identity and sharp keenness, da analyzed the laws of science and nature, which unfathomably instructed his work. da was a painter, craftsman, draftsman, pioneer, and military specialist - the embodiment of a вЂњRenaissance man.вЂќ. Around the world there are many honorable people and honorable scientists. To me honor means having courage to be committed to or feel pride for something or someone, so I guess IвЂ™m not that far off. The true definition of honor is вЂњa privilegeвЂќ or вЂњhigh respectвЂќ. Our hope is that through this innovative program we will use the inspiration and example of Leonardo to re-ignite the enthusiasm for research and challenge in this generation and the next, and to develop the most distinguishing of human features, the enquiring and challenging mind.On the fifteenth of AprilвЂљ 1452вЂљ near the town of вЂљ not far from FlorenceHe the son of a Florentine notaryвЂљ Piero вЂљ and a young woman named Caterina spent most of his life in Florence and Milan In 1469 he apprenticed to Andrea VerrocchioвЂљ a leading Renaissance master Words | 3 Pages. Additionally, a film on the life of Leonardo will be shown courtesy of the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles. Items from the Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana in the UCLA Library Special Collections will also be on display. The conference will be accompanied by an exhibition of relevant facsimiles of LeonardoвЂ™s drawings matched with photographs of contemporary dissections and modern artistic works from the Department of Artistic Anatomy of the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. To that end, this conference takes as its starting point four foci of LeonardoвЂ™s work-Flight, the Heart, Robotics & Artificial Intelligence, and the Environment-and looks into the future and what may be waiting for mankind as our knowledge and impulse to explore the unknown unfolds over time. His desire for new knowledge and understanding would have driven him to look forwards rather than back. Rather than simply celebrating LeonardoвЂ™s life, works, and scholarship, this conference approaches LeonardoвЂ™s influence in a novel way, musing on how Leonardo himself might have reflected on this auspicious anniversary. This conference was proposed and brought to fruition primarily through the inspiration and efforts of Francis Wells. Jointly presented by the UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center вЂ“ David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, UCLA Art I Science Center, and Caltech. Victoria Vesna (Professor of Design and Media Arts Director, Art|Sci Center, UCLA).Morteza Gharib (Professor of Aeronautics and Bioinspired Engineering, Caltech).Boyle (Professor of Medicine/Cardiology, UCLA) Massimo Ciavolella (Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, UCLA).Francis Wells (Cardiac Surgeon, Royal Papworth Hospital and Cambridge University, UK).вЂњLeonardo da Vinci, Inventing the FutureвЂќ takes place on October 18-19, 2019, at UCLAвЂ™s California NanoSystems Institute. His private notebooks on scientific, anatomical, and engineering studies reveal a gifted endlessly enquiring mind that has caught the imagination of todayвЂ™s scholars in many disciplines. Recognized as unique and special in his own time as well as our own, LeonardoвЂ™s paintings were highly sought after and his skills in engineering and hydrodynamics placed him in a category apart from his fellow artists. Leonardo da Vinci, polymath and true genius of the Renaissance left this world. On May 2, 1519, a great mind was extinguished.

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