Leonardo da Vinci was an extraordinary man. He created famous paintings like the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper. These painting alone would has ensured him a place in history. Most people know him for his painting, yet he didn't only specialize in painting. Leonardo explored a vast variety of subjects like, sculpting, architecture, physical sciences, mathematics, mechanics, and engineering. There are very few people of his kind ever in history.
             He developed prototypes for flying machines long before it was perfected. He also drew very detailed draw of human and animal anatomy. These were some of the most important achievements during the Renaissance science. His drawing of the human body were so detailed that he was at leased 300 hundred years before his time.
             Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452, the illegitimate son of Peiro da Vinci and a local woman known only as Caterina. He was reared as m member of his father's household. A notarized attestation of his birth by his grandfather signifies his family's recognition of him and of its responsibilities. Still little remains of his childhood.
             Leonardo himself recorded only one event from his childhood, recalled years later, when he was compiling notes on the flight of birds in his notebook. He simply comments that's he was probably fated to write about the flight of kites 'because in the earliest memory of my childhood it seemed to me that as I lay in my cradle s kite came down to me and opened my mouth with its tail and struck me with it's tail many times between the lips.
             Of Leonardo's work at this early period little survives, other than some sketches in his notebooks. One page of these, consisting of a series of portraits of the same head, a head that also appears in some of his earlier paintings. One early account credits him with contributing the head of an angel to Verrocchio's painting, and one head is clea...