Leonardo da Vinci Inventions in Replica at Mall

Family Home Evening Activity with the Ks. Fillerups also showed up as we were leaving to get a look at the exhibit too.





This is a page from his notebook, one of many. Only about a fourth of his writings, notebooks have been preserved. He was always keeping his thoughts recorded in his journals. He was pure genius to have made so many contributions to aerodynamics. He studied bats and birds to see how they actually were able to fly. He even made a parachute shaped like a pyramid, and was used to eventually make one when airplanes were invented centuries later. Incredible--in a word.



I was astounded at how much this man used his brain and intellect to be so creative. He was a master of the art, and even wrote backwards to keep his peers at a distance and never revealed his complete plans by leaving out information that only he would know how to make it work. Self preservation, protection maybe?.



He was Inventor, Mathematician, amazing artist, self-portrait born in 1452 in Vinci Italy near Florence.



The Mona Lisa


Ingenious invention of the bicecletta, aka Bicycle or two-wheeler

I was in awe of Leonardo Da Vinci's work--He had such a great mind. Museums were something I really learned to love when I lived in Chicago in elementary school. My class went to the Chicago Museum of Natural History. It was when I first learned about dinosaurs and saw their skeletons and saw the pre-historic Mastedon exhibit aka elephants.

I appreciate being included to go with Hank, Lori and Family for Family Home Evening.
Thank you. It was fun and the kids had a great time with the hands on exhibits with gears, mirrored walls, portable wooden bridges, and even the closest thing I could describe it as a "car" made out of wood, like a wagon/or carriage. This was all before motors were invented!