“What have the Romans ever done for us?”
著名的演员说的话of Monty Python in the hit 1979 film ‘Life of Brian’. What did the Romans ever do for us? Well apart from roads, currency and culture, pretty much nothing. So what did Leonardo Da Vinci do for us? Art, physics, culture and pretty much nothing.
In this article we take a look at the impact Leonardo Da Vinci has had on our world, including a look at Dan Brown’s incredible book, which was adapted to screen by Ron Howard in 2006.
谁是Leonardo da Vinci？
达芬奇（Da Vinci）是欧洲文艺复兴时期背后的催化剂之一，出生于1452年，意大利人是画家，雕塑家，建筑师，发明家，工程师和制图员，包括其他许多事情。
Artistically, his biggest contributions to the world were his depictions of Mona Lisa and the Last Supper, which adornsthe walls of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan.达芬奇（Da Vinci）的艺术品已成为艺术界的代名词，而学生们至今仍以极大的态度学习他的作品。
然而，当他制定了飞行器计划时，他对世界的最大贡献之一是。达芬奇研究了蝙蝠的生理学，并制定了与自行车和直升机计划结合的机器的计划。
考虑到达芬奇（Da Vinci）出生于赖特兄弟（Wright Brothers）首次进入天空之前的551年，达芬奇（Da Vinci）的想法是革命性的。达芬奇还以更具破坏性的方式开创了使用毁灭性的战争材料，例如Trebuchets，巨大的cross等。
Da Vinci wasn’t just content with designing flying machines and incredible works of art, he was also interested in furthering the worlds understanding of the human body. Through animal and human dissections, Da Vinci developed diagrams of the fetus, uterus and heart that are still used today in modern medicine.
Read on to see how Da Vinci’s discoveries and legacies shaped the world we live in.
Medicine
In 1500, Da Vinci became the first man to record the thyroid in anatomical depictions, and thus confirm it as an organ rather than a pathological aberration. In his recordings, Da Vinci mused,“这些腺体是为了填补缺乏肌肉的间隔，并使气管远离颈部骨骼，就像它们是垫子一样。”
Unfortunately, Da Vinci’s musings were wrong, as scientists now know the thyroid secretes hormones to regulatethe body’s temperature, weight and energy levels。但是，他对甲状腺的描述对于对现代世界中甲状腺问题的未来理解和治疗非常重要。
降落伞
People readily associate the parachute with armies, and notably those of the allied forces that parachuted over Normandy in the mid 1940’s. However, the technology behind parachutes was firstrecorded in the 15thLeonardo da Vinci的世纪。
他为降落伞设计了计划，该降落伞由木杆金字塔固定的密封亚麻布组成，该降落伞的降落伞旨在使任何人都能从高度扔掉自己而不会受到任何伤害。
Unfortunately, Da Vinci was dead by the time his invention was realised in 1783, but his forward-thinking years earlier laid the foundations for future inventors to implement the parachute.
工程
Further to the great man’s plans for aircraft, there were also Da Vinci’s ideas for sprawling bridges – which weren’trealised until 2001 and for incredible war machinery。
One of his most startling inventions was a giant crossbow that required a small army of men to operate. Yet it wasn’t just war machines and bridges that were borne of his work, there were plenty of other inventions that relied on his pioneering trigonometry work.
意外的达芬奇遗产
Film & book
Dan Brown rose to prominence in 2003 with his novel entitled ‘The Da Vinci Code’, which took its name from the first murder in the book. The victim was discovered in the Louvre, naked and poised in the same position as Da Vinci’s famous drawing ‘Vitruvian Man’.
该书探讨了以宗教热情为中心的替代历史法国的梅罗温王。In 2007 the book was adapted into a film by Ron Howard, which starred Tom Hanks amongst other well-known actors.
Although initially tenuous, the link between Da Vinci and the book/film led to a renewed interest into the works of the Italian Renaissance inventor. Documentaries about his inventions and discoveries began to surface on the BBC and ITV.
游戏
传说中的意大利发明家甚至在游戏世界中被引导。这在line slot game ‘Da Vinci Diamonds’, has been dubbed a ‘stylish masterpiece’, it gains attention for being truly unique from any other game in the industry.
Many online slot machines fail to find a USP that separates itself from the competition, but this game contains caricatures of Da Vinci’s work to give players an insight into the great man’s previous work.
“I’m not content to merely capture the world, I want to change it.”
Those were the words spoken to Ezio Auditore in Ubisoft’s smash-hit game Assassins Creed II. The console game followed the life of an anti-Templar assassin in Renaissance Rome, during the main characters progress he encountered several famous characters, one of them being Leonardo Da Vinci.
在游戏中used Ezio as a puppet to test his latest inventions, including early prototypes for grenades and an imagined version of Da Vinci’s great flying machine.
概括
如果您与您的朋友进行了有关技术的对话，并听到他们说出“ Da Vinci为我们做了什么？”现在您知道答案。
这incredible Italian visionary was one of the first men to depict the anatomy of the human body in the 15th世纪，多年来为巨大的医疗进步铺平了道路。他开创了千年的一些最伟大的艺术品，并预见了“飞行器”的发明。
有了一点探索和研究，有可能看到莱昂纳多·达·芬奇（Leonardo da Vinci）对21st世纪英国。
