Son of Ser Piero and Catarina, Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452. With his father and stepmother, Leonardo lived his first five years in Anchiano, Italy. Leonardo then moved in with his grandfather in Vinci. At this time, he started to involved with painting and painted a "monster" for his father to see. His father was impressed. Ser Pie

In 1516, King Francis I invited Leonardo to his court of France in Amboise. Leonardo accepted and arrived with the Mona Lisa in his baggage. It was here that Leonardo concentrated on scientific studies rather than paint masterpieces. As a writer, he kept notebooks of his thoughts, ideas, and questions about the world. Leoardo thought of a flying machine stands out in one of his notebooks. He had studied birds by dissecting dead ones in order to figure out the necessities of flight. Leonardo put careful thought and consideration into his flying machine; he thought of air as a liquid. The results of the test flight of his machine is unknown, perhaps he may not have tried to fly it. Nearly 400 years later, however, two brothers did try it,

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