Why were Da Vinci's ideas ahead of his time?

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During the Renaissance period scientist and inventors were making important discoveries. They were asking questions which would change our view of the Earth - and the Heavens - forever. Of course not all the inventions actually worked. The great artist and engineer Leonardo da Vinci was determined to find a way of making people fly like birds. Throughout his life Leonardo da Vinci drew many designs for flying machines. Among these was a kind of parachute and a helicopter with spinning blades. His grandest idea was for an aircraft with flapping wings, which he dreamed up in about 1503. He organized a test flight but according to legend the machine crashed. The first successful aircraft did not actually fly for another 400 years so he was certainly well ahead of his time.


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Galileo Galilei was both an astronomer and a physicist. His observations about the heavens helped to confirm the ideas of Copercus.

resources: Tell me why (Chancellor Press)
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