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30 million dollars! What would you buy if you had 30 million dollars? When Bill Gates was asked that question, his answer was an 18 page journal full of my random thoughts and every day observations. Seems strange right? In this speech I’m going to prove to you that it is exactly the opposite. I pride myself in being a humble man, but today I am going to make an exception. You probably think of me as “that guy who painted the Mona Lisa,” but I’m going to prove to you that I am much, much more than that.
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I, Leonardo da Vinci became the most influential person in history through my art, which continues to inspire, my inventions, such as the parachute, and through my contributions to the sciences.
(Now let’s take a look at why my accomplishments are so important to the world and why they make me the Power of One.) |
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My first love was Art.
A. I am most known for my painting. 1. I am also a writer, a sculptor, and a musician. 2. My most prized possession also happens to be the most famous painting on the world, The Mona Lisa. 3. It is on display at the Louvre in France, where it is visited by thousands of people every day. 4. The Mona Lisa has vastly affected the cultures of the world. It revolutionized the art world, and in turn the people of the world. |
B. I also invented painting techniques that are still used to this day.
1. I was the first artist to use perspective and vanishing points, as seen in The Last Supper. 2. These techniques helped start the trend of realistic art that I was so well known for during the renaissance. 3. An example of realistic art from my time is Machiavelli’s “The Prince.” (In addition to several successful paintings and artistic techniques I Invented many useful tools and machines.) |
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II. I invented hundreds of useful things during my lifetime.
A. I invented weapons for many powerful men. 1. Some of these weapons include the armored tank and an early machine gun. B. I have been obsessed with the idea of flight since I was a child. 1. I invented Flying machines such as the Ornithopter, the winged glider, and the parachute almost 500 years before the Wright brother’s first flight. 2. Recently my flying machines have been constructed using my original blueprints and they were found to work exactly as I predicted. |
C. I am also very interested in robotics.
1. My self-propelled cart was the first car and the first robotic vehicle, invented more than 400 years before Henry Ford’s model T went on sale. 2. This technology helped pave the way for the mars rover. 3. One of my favorite inventions is the Robotic Knight. 4. The Robotic Knight is the first humanoid robot. 5. It was made form a suit of armor filled with gears and pulleys that make it sit, stand, walk, and move it jaw. 6. My robot even made it to space, when some of it features were later used in NASA’s “planetary exploration robots.” (Finally, there is one more reason, perhaps the most important reason, that I am the Power of One.) |
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III. Before my time people still followed the 1000 year old scientific teachings of Galen.
A. I was one of the few people to question these archaic ideas, causing science to become a new passion of mine. It turned art and inventing into side jobs. 1. Human anatomy was the main field of interest for me because it could better my art as well as help me to understand the human body. 2. I performed human dissections in secret, and made many discoveries based on my findings. 3. I was able to recognize multiple illnesses as cause of death hundreds of years before they would be diagnosed by doctors. 4. I made sketches of the internal anatomy of the human body that are still considered accurate today. 5. I was the first to correctly portray the female anatomy. 6. and I introduced the field of genetics |
B. My sketch of the Vitruvian man portrays human proportions almost exactly.
8. The Vitruvian man had a surprising impact on our world. 9. Everyone agrees that beauty is important in today’s world 10. But who or what decided what is considered beautiful in people? 11. Well, I did. Using Proportion and symmetry I was able to draw the perfect human body. So perfect in fact that the Vitruvian man is used in plastic surgery procedures to this day. |
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(We have arrived, now, where we began.) 30 million dollars! Why was someone willing to spend over 30 million dollars on an 18 page notebook filled with an eccentric man’s impossible ideas? Because those ideas, my ideas have shaped modern day art, technology, and science. |
So when you’re voting on Power of One day, don’t let Joseph Stalin bully you or Mother Theresa Sweet-talk you into voting for them. Think instead of this quote from one of my journals
II. “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” |
