From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Vitruvian Man, known in Italian as L'uomo vitruviano, is a drawing made by Leonardo da Vinci in about 1490. [1] Around the drawing are notes based on the work of the architect Vitruvius. Its original name was Le proporzioni del corpo umano secondo Vitruvio - this means "The proportions
Military Machines (1485) by Leonardo da Vinci British Museum. 5. Bill Gates bought Leonardo da Vinci's notebook. Way back in 1994, Microsoft founder and rare book collector Bill Gates bought one of Leonardo's notebooks, the Codex Leicester, for a whopping $30.8 million. The gargantuan price tag made it the most expensive book ever sold.
Leonardo da Vinci(Italian: "Leonardo from Vinci") (born April 15, 1452, Anchiano, near Vinci, Republic of Florence [Italy]—died May 2, 1519, Cloux [now Clos-Lucé], France) Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer whose skill and intelligence, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance .