Reconsidering Leonardo [Historical]

M. Guarnieri

DOI:10.1109/MIE.2019.2929366

Corpus ID: 202729396

Reconsidering Leonardo [Historical]

@article{Guarnieri2019ReconsideringL,
  title={Reconsidering Leonardo [Historical]},
  author={M. Guarnieri},
  journal={IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine},
  year={2019},
  volume={13},
  pages={35-38}
}

M. Guarnieri

Published 2019

Engineering

IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine

The story goes that 500 years ago, on 2 May 1519, in the Clos Lucé manor house near the royal castle of Amboise, King Francis I of France was lovingly assisting an old man who was on his deathbed. The man was neither a king, an aristocrat, nor a victorious general. He was the out-of-wedlock son of an Italian notary. France was, after Spain, the most powerful state in Europe, and, at that time, aristocrats avoided caring for people below their status. There is a chance that this story, portrayed… CONTINUE READING

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