Introductory Note:
Who are the most important people of the last One Thousand years, i.e., from 1000 AD to 2000 AD? The phrase ‘important people’ are defined as ‘a person /s who changed the destiny of the world; defined the great stream of human history and altered our perceptions.
Let us remember them.
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Leonardo was born in Vinci, Italy in 1452. He showed his talent in painting and sculpture. He did many projects in engineering architecture, anatomy, mathematics, map making, scientific illustration and optics.
His best-known works are ‘Mona Lisa’ and ‘The Last Supper’.
Leonardo was a Renaissance man, a man who knows too much, with broad and deep interests and with an unending zest for enquiry. He is regarded as the greatest of the amateurs; this enduring icon of the Renaissance set a mark unequaled by any who came after.
Thus, he becomes the 5th greatest man during the last 1000 years.
About the Author
Dr. K. Raja Gopal Reddy is a seasoned internationally qualified Insurance professional. What you are reading here, may not answer all the questions we have, but has the absolute power of asking unsettling questions which increase the interest in the strange world, and show the contradictory wonders lying just below the surface of the commonest things of life. Look at this disturbing but beautiful thought of Friedrich Nietzsche “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him”.
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