#LeonardodaVinci500thDeathAnniversary
Today May 2 2019 is 500th death anniversary of Leonardo da
Vinci
JENNIFER OUELLETTE:
"Leonardo da Vinci was fascinated by watery things. He
spent hours in his lab and in the field observing the turbulent dynamics of
water flowing in a river, carefully documenting its quirky behavior in his
illustrated notebooks. He noticed the tiny swirling whirlpools, or vortices,
that formed when boulders obstructed the water's path, and the bubbles that
rose through the water in fizzy spirals, and connected those with similar
eddies that formed in the air. His writings contain one of the earliest scientific
descriptions of a water spout at the seashore, recorded with the title:
"Of wind twists and eddies involving water." Five hundred years
later, such close observation of common natural phenomena is a rarity for most
of us, living in cities and suburbs, where nature is largely taken for granted
and life moves in a hurry...."
courtesy: Facebook page on Leonardo da Vinci