Preview | Leonardo, The Man Who Saved Science
Preview: Season 16 Episode 4 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Uncover new evidence tracing many of Leonardo da Vinci’s inventions to other scientists.
Leonardo da Vinci is well known for his inventions as well as his art. But new evidence shows that many of his ideas were realized long before he sketched them out in his notebooks — some even 1,700 years before. Was Leonardo a copycat?
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Preview | Leonardo, The Man Who Saved Science
Preview: Season 16 Episode 4 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Leonardo da Vinci is well known for his inventions as well as his art. But new evidence shows that many of his ideas were realized long before he sketched them out in his notebooks — some even 1,700 years before. Was Leonardo a copycat?
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- Leonardo's science cannot be understood without his art.
- [Narrator] But were his inventions really his?
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Did Leonardo Really Invent the Parachute?
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The parachute is one of many inventions attributed to Leonardo but he did not invent it. (4m 12s)
Leonardo's Anatomical Drawings
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Leonardo’s first dissections were in search of the soul. (3m 19s)
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The “Vitruvian Man,” which Leonardo drew in about 1490, seems to summarize all of his work (3m 1s)
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