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Leonardo joined art with engineering

  • Written by Ben Shneiderman, Professor of Computer Science, University of Maryland
'Design for a giant crossbow.'Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci’s remarkable capacity for careful observation made him an astonishing artist and a brilliant scientist. He was able to compare the speed of a bird’s wing movement downwards and upwards. He noticed the differences between arteries carrying blood from the heart and the...

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