AS405 History Of Western Civilization

Running head: WORLD HISTORY
World History
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WORLD HISTORY
The world history has underwent a lot of changes and they have made the society what it
is today. Amidst the various ages the contribution of the renaissance was the turning point which
forged the future one is living in today. The age was marked with the rise in the number of
people who had scientific thinking and led to the rise in the number of people contributing to the
development of scientific thinking (Bono, Morelli & Quattrone, 2015). One of the most prolific
thinker of the time was Leonardo Da Vinci.
Leonardo Da Vinci was one of the most influential thinkers and he was working towards
the development of better ideas in the social and other scientific attitudes of the people. He was
one of the first to think of a number of scientific inventions and made a considerable contribution
in the field of medical sciences by making the diagrams of the internal working of the different
circulation systems, among other works he was the first to sketch a working model of a
parachute considering that the earlier sciences were obsessed about the ability of flying and the
ways that the mechanics of flight worked (Ackerman, 2018). The diagram was based on a
mechanism which would help individuals to fall from heights without hurting themselves fatally.
Painting was one of the major proficiencies of Leonardo Da Vinci and his work Mona
Lisa and Madonna of the Rocks are widely critically acclaimed. There are a number of factors
that makes the painting one of a kind. One of the most important is the famous Mona Lisa smile
which apparently took one year to paint and the smile has been interpreted as sexual to evil but it
represents the mastery and the genius that Leonardo Da Vinci had (Garrard, 2018).
Few of his diagrams mention in intricate details the anatomy of a man and the details I
this case focus on the development of the human body. One of the most famous wok in this
context is the Vitruvian Man. The accuracy of the angles that is shown in the Vitruvian man