How Leonardo da Vinci made a "satellite" map in 1502

It was a feat of technological and symbolic imagination. And it was pretty accurate, too.
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Leonardo da Vinci’s known for his art and inventions - but also his groundbreaking maps, like this one of Imola, Italy. In this episode of Vox Almanac, Vox’s Phil Edwards explores how it was made.
Further reading:
1) John Pinto’s History of the Ichnographic City Plan is useful to understand the history of these maps.
2) Check out Portraying the City in Early Modern Europe: Measurement, Representation, and Planning by Hilary Ballon and David Friedman for more info.
3) If you want to dig deeper into early maps, Jessica Maier’s Mapping Past and Present: Leonardo Bufalini’s Plan of Rome is fascinating.
Please email Phil if you have trouble finding any of these papers.
Drafting 1502’s equivalent to a “satellite” map was a massive undertaking, and Leonardo managed to pull it off. His early map helped Italian politcian Cesare Borgia construct an idea of the town of Imola that was far more accurate than most contemporary maps. Through the use of careful measurements of angles and pacing out distances using a primitive odometer, Leonardo managed to create a map that was very close to accurate.
This map - an “ichnographic” map - was a step forward in portraying how maps could work to represent geography. Though it’s marked with some inaccuracies, it’s stunningly precise for the time and pushed forward the art of mapmaking. Leonardo’s Imola remains, even today, a remarkably useful guide to the city.
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[@soviet_from_afganussr1917]

He just fly above the city newton didnt discovered gravity yet

[@Michaelly888]

fax

[@kid_k1w162]

And he just vibin So I’m not stressing He looking kinda fresh tho ngl

[@grandtheftautoexpert2040]

soviet_from_Afgan USSR bruh you did the joke wrong, it’s invent not discover

[@LYSAaroN]

da vinci kinda vibing tho

[@user-ry1zh1pb7w]

@@grandtheftautoexpert2040 tf are u talking about that's the same thing it's just scientists making up words to try to get a chip of Albert einsteins brain

[@animewatch4213]

imagine your work is so good that people can't check its accuracy for hundreds of years.

[@gamestycon2239]

DSS Singh What type is business study

[@guyfacks1320]

They could just walk down the street using the map as a guide to check its accuracy

[@jongomez3348]

Guy Facks lol

[@Yoctopory]

Like my work is. Well - prove me wrong! ;)

[@thanhvinhnguyento7069]

Now that's badass

[@jamirimaj6880]

Da Vinci is so OP, that even his errors are being dubbed as "artistic license" and making some mistakes as "taking liberties" lol

[@bellecwy]

he's too badass

[@Nugcon]

He maxed out his "Benefit of the doubt" perk

[@FAXXARAB]

DA VINCI

[@Chase_AM]

The map they were talking about having artistic flourishes was not by Da Vinci.

[@GetOffUrPhone]

Plot armor lol

[@matthiasstevens813]

History channel: 'he's an alien'

[@nevergivethedmideas7252]

And futurama.

[@nokrimchimarak1246]

Ancient astronaut theorists says yes

[@ayushprasad6159]

Nah! Only non-European feats are made by aliens.

[@tinaloye2014]

Time traveller clearly

[@nokrimchimarak1246]

@Deep Kumar yes 😄

[@pondererofpointlessdreams5029]

Homeboy Leonardo bout to raise from the grave to sue Google for stealing the concept of Google Maps

[@also_arles]

theodd1sout and me both say hes a swag master

[@pologamero2648]

What?? Maps exist much before daVinci. May be his maps were good but that its all. Leonardo was a very methodic engineer and this map its a reflex of this.

[@xXN0cturnXx]

For stealing the name! It's "DaVinci Maps"!

[@8is]

or that Roman guy

[@swarupchakraborty6291]

copyrights....

[@joermnyc]

DaVinci: “Tell no one my helicopter actually worked.” DeMedici: “Done.”

[@dheiyomain6775]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@thebinglee1]

dont know about the helicopter but i am sure he could make a blimp

[@noone8958]

@@thebinglee1 blimp in the medieval age?

[@noone8958]

@The oil is Burning still no one know how to make blimb in that age bcs of how low the technology there

[@pastaconketchups]

@cosc De Medici was the royal family of Firenze, Florence

[@Jakentosh]

plot twist: the city was build after he made the map

[@amateka1]

hahahahhhh

[@michaeltatoy2388]

That would be very accurate to a single cm

[@sebastianmemphis283]

I thought the same thing.haha

[@jkeymusic]

ancient city blueprint

[@sebastianmemphis283]

@Shuba Duba Thanks. English teacher.

[@carlitos8943]

It boggles my mind how ahead of his time this man was, he was extremely intelligent, imagine what he would come up with using the technology that we have now

[@IntellectualWave]

Not much actually. He would've had to write papers and submit them to journals and wait for approval 😂

[@erunooo]

and maybe also procrastinate too hard because of all the distractions that disguises itself as a medium for finding references or inspiration but its davinci were talking about here an absolute gigachad of a creator

[@mohammadtogar6242]

​@@erunoooThat makes me wonder how much greater Da Vinci would've been if procrastination didn't get in his way. I heard he might've had ADHD, which, as someone who has that condition myself, sounds interesting to know.

[@stanmakrushin]

02:55 People must have freaked out when they saw the Leonardo Street view vehicle

[@pamungkastabah8163]

😂😂😂

[@chrislaflamme7300]

Beautiful

[@harshitmishra7091]

Lol

[@lindacloudobserver9717]

Only another Leonardo/gadget type person would get excited over it. Most would give it just a passing glance. Maybe it was common for road building.

[@KMcNally117]

WITCH! "Fair brother, calm yourself. For it only be Master Da Vinci" (Bruh its Leo, calm the f*** down)

[@Curryfishballa]

Da Vinci the type of guy who is literally living in 2060

[@flakeu]

Imagine what he would have accomplished if he was living in this era.

[@Darthvader33333]

I think he would make elon musk looks like a toddler..

[@titledprince]

@@flakeu you could really say that about anyone, imagine what Einstein or nikola Tesla could've done with the world wide web for research

[@cloroxbleach7377]

Andrew Bee imagine if all of them were alive in this era

[@ekardnogard9530]

@@cloroxbleach7377 if they all lived in the same era then none of them could do what they could've done in their own times. They all learned from one anothers research and inventions.

[@LabGecko]

The part that surprises me, as I'm already familiar with many of Da Vinci's work, is that _the buildings are in the same place after 300+ years!_

[@jeffb3357]

500 years

[@kusmus1273]

DaVinci's life legit feels the one character we see in movies who is extremely skilled and talented but is lazy and somewhat cunning

[@kenneth6211]

There is nothing lazy about Da Vinci

[@kingzriot976]

@@kenneth6211Da Vinci was actually kind of lazy and always distracted. That was his main downside even though he was most likely the most gifted person to ever live. He didn’t really finish much of his work, his last words were even about his work and how he didn’t finish. “I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.”

[@Big_Caesar1]

@@kingzriot976 Honestly sounds a lot like ADHD. Some people with ADHD are truly savants but they get distracted with their varied interests.

[@Kyle-nm1kh]

Not lazy. Just would stop something and do something else frequently

[@Blazer-bn9ev]

He just asked Ezio to fly over the city multiple times and memorize the structure

[@WellCookedPotatoes]

Mohit Behera Naw he just hopped in a trebuchet and launched over the city

[@afan7608]

Or he would just stack up on dirt and build a tower

[@Luis_Facil]

Or just synchronized points of the city

[@mikeoxmaul45]

That mission where Ezio used wings to "fly" using huge fires all over the streets

[@rowdyghatkar]

aahhh AC2 memories.. lol

[@fairuzhussaini7301]

Legend has it that it was him who designed de_dust.

[@MartinFishfarm]

Bomb has been planted

[@imthevoice7482]

Cz is lovb

[@rahuldolas8464]

Fire in the hole

[@imthevoice7482]

Cz is on verve of end, only 40 people left who play cz anymore😔😢

[@imthevoice7482]

Alpha yup I do

[@harpsichordman1]

What is remarkable (among all else that is remarkable about Leonardo's work) is that at the time the maps was made, there were no universal standards - a foot in Florence was different in length from a foot in, say, Rome, which was different from a foot in Paris. So it is a testament to Leonardo's attention to accuracy and detail that the map can be overlaid on a modern map!

[@MuhammadAhmed-ow3qh]

Yes exactly. Its a carbon copy. Amazed, just the thought of it

[@racerschin]

If he used the same chicken to measure the distances, the map would still overlay. Proportions are not affected by scale.

[@mrfatuchi]

@@racerschin Sad how many likes he got yet as you said its about relations not absolute measures.

[@markhird-rutter2305]

In the 1500’s there were many mappers doing work to high standards of accuracy. They used plane tables, stadia, early theodolites for angles. Check out the Noli map of Roam. Similar type of mapping. This was done on the ground and very carefully. The 3D render style shown at the beginning were originally collected in the same way and they had a machine that helped them convert to a perspective view.

[@lebronjames4705]

Leonardo da Vinci was the hardest flexer of all time

[@harshitmishra7091]

Lol 😂

[@skreeef.e.h2315]

I love you comment bro 😆

[@ipotatosenpai7002]

Ikr

[@lifeuncovered6188]

Yes

[@menace2societies]

actually he doesn't brag about his achievements. no flex.

[@subsnovids-eq4yk]

When you make a character and you spend all your points on intellect.

[@thatoneuser8600]

... That the character becomes so smart it takes over the controller

[@somedudeintheinterweb8665]

I made my characters super strong and super fast like seriously thats all i spend my skill points on

[@SDSypher]

William Gabriel Gamboa Where'd we ask

[@smurf3684]

@@somedudeintheinterweb8665 sadly you only had 2 points to spend while the average is 10 :(

[@somedudeintheinterweb8665]

@@SDSypher you didnt but nobody here is asking you to ask me right ?

[@brendanpeck6121]

I love the zoom out at the very end, I have a whole new appreciation for our modern maps.

[@shanecullen1551]

I love the way in which you seem to pick up on the little details, most seem to miss. Awesome keep it up you guys.

[@muhammadhaikalzidane1534]

Well, Leonardo davinci is the most broken character in the 1500

[@brassinstruments4384]

Leonardo too OP pls nerf

[@whisnudhani1787]

@ Sistine Chapel painting is Michaelangelo's work.

[@red2744]

@ wrong guys hahahaha r/ihadastroke

[@kaylubproductions4517]

S. 10 P. 10 E. 10 C. 10 I. 1000 A. 10 L. 10 God put a cheat code in to make Leonardo.

[@anonymouswhite7957]

Pelle pFunk helium balloon? nope. but animal intestines that can be filled air exists. And hot air balloons can theoritically made in that era

[@kyliegarcia6297]

Imagine what Leonardi could have accomplished with our present technology

[@howdyhow8594]

we'll live in the moon right now

[@jzaza2745]

Kylie Garcia ya Elon musk

[@americanpatriot3667]

James Vlogs Elon musk is a fraud

[@Violetenist]

@@americanpatriot3667 fraud or not, people definetley respect his personality

[@whiteheavn]

we already colonized the whole solar system

[@SeannachyMcPoet]

Thank you. That is so cool how you explained the Imola map idea.

[@leodavinxi3402]

This is why I absolutely love Leonardo Da Vinci

[@yehnah2680]

If DaVinci was alive today he’d be a real life Tony Stark

[@Official_Chivo.06]

He was the Howard stark of his times. He was just limited to the technology he had

[@davideb.4290]

No, he wasn't rich, he worked for nobles and rich people but he couldn't afford to build his own inventions without nobles financing him. It was normal at the time for artists to work for a rich or important family, it was called mecenatism

[@musiccer7446]

@@davideb.4290 dude. That’s the same in the modern world. But such a universal genius would’ve easily found investors for his plans

[@lordofolimpia1]

@@davideb.4290 the guy said if he's alive today not before. Engineers and Computer Scientist runs the world today. Just look at Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates.

[@giovannicesaramorim9adigan961]

@@lordofolimpia1 Look at Elon Musk?

[@TrollingVideoz]

He also drew Kate Winslet in the Titanic, the boys going places

[@Artist_of_Imagination]

**chokes in water**

[@sbyoutub3]

Oh my 😂

[@HH-he4pw]

Wrong leonardo mate

[@mbuyelo7131]

@@HH-he4pw its a joke.

[@SayakMajumder]

@@HH-he4pw whooshed

[@meatilicious1900]

Davinci: I'm limited by the technology of my time

[@sambitbasu6261]

He was the definition of technology back then. He literally made half the stuff available then

[@turgor1478]

Oh god imagine if we had someone like Da Vinci in this day and age.

[@dimitreze]

he is the greatest genius in the history of mankind

[@CalvinGeorgeSisyphus]

The guys who built the Pyramids were better engineers.

[@pandapirate25yearsago33]

@@CalvinGeorgeSisyphus nope definitely not

[@iltoni6895]

@weeb ladka now he has more likes that the other guy. Likes aren't a way to tell who's right...

[@iltoni6895]

I'd say Pythagoras

[@diegocastaneda1016]

@weeb ladka check the likes again boy...

[@shenoynagu2572]

Engineers and scientists are lucky. If this dude was alive now.! He would have got all the noble every year.

[@yourworstnightmare1488]

yess all the noble all of them

[@Jay1830]

Maybe not. Today to get nobel prize etc... you cant just think of doing basic stuff differently. You have to work extremly hard on the same project for years and years. While da vinci was more like a college student with a 3d printer : oh i want to do this... works a few weeks on it, then when results are meh to acceptable he moves to an other project. I dont think he was the only one wanting to do a map, a flying machine or whatever. But he was probably one of the few with enough free time, money, and health to try making one. If you look at most of its projects that didnt work, any 12yo kid can tell you why it failed. Like his plane, you see that wings are too small, its like if someone told him "eh this needs wings to fly" Then he put wings but didnt understand their purpose so he made them small. He didnt even experiment different shapes, or do small scale test to see wich wings are the best for a glider or whatever. If he did live today he would have made : - drones without stabilisation because its the boring part. - electric cars with low power because the battery is the tricky part ( a tesla battery is made of like 2000 3.5v lithium batteries in serie and parallel, if one of these 3000 in parallel isnt discharged at the same rate of the other it overheat, if its one in serie it reduce the whole power.) This kind of guy was nice to have back then but nowadays you cant do anything with just some basic ideas, you have to engineer everything, try fail improve. Just look at spaceX how many times they crashed boosters during landing. Leo would have give up after 3 crashes

[@jasonchatto]

@@Jay1830 Or a political leader who is in the favor of the globalist liberal elites who pushes their agenda.

[@mitaskeledzija6269]

Lol doesn't work like that buddy

[@mima3074]

@@Jay1830 Even if you have mentioned a few good points here, Da Vinci was way more dedicated than you'd think. His studies of the human body are still accurate and were painstakingly made without the help of x-Ray or anything we have at hand. You have to put his works in perspective, whilst millions of people have great ideas, most of them don't get to creating them, since they are incapable of figuring out a way to fulfill their ideas. Even back then cartographers tried creating usable maps of cities with their given knowledge, still it was Da Vinci who made the effort to actually measure out street corner degrees and length of said streets/walls/Buildings etc.. I would most certainly say he wasn't the smartest man on the planet, yet his dedication and efforts payed off. To the original comment I'd say that he'd have a fair chance at winning a noble price, maybe not all of them though :D .

[@minevillarreal]

Thank you very much. It is so useful to share with my students

[@Replays96_]

Da Vinci fascinates me like nothing other in life, Just trying to put yourself in 1502 is soo hard to do!

[@TombstoneDaVinchi]

He was a different level of genius. Border line demigod level intelligence

[@dove6069]

Its just basic math lol

[@jorgeaugusto1867]

@@dove6069 in modern days, yes. It was highly advanced math back then

[@napoleonjr2840]

@@dove6069 you’re ignorant to just call it maths it was 500 yrs ago

[@christinehandy3692]

@@dove6069 basic math that wasn't validated through proofs or experiments. You're incorrect.

[@tinaloye2014]

You are all wrong. Leo was clearly a time traveller and really needed google maps

[@afrotron]

Da Vinci has always inspired me ever since I was a child. He's the reason I'm studying architecture.

[@ukdrilllyrics2624]

I must have alzheimer's cuz ion remember askin

[@ukdrilllyrics2624]

Jk lol

[@yeyegshsjkrkrheheysteyeheh4973]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@ronyerila4370]

Afrotron where do You study?

[@Pllayer064]

👍🏽

[@resaterel678]

"Ageometretos medeis eisito" "Let no-one without knowledge of geometry enter here." (Famous quote written at the Entrance of Plato's Academy)

[@gmanon1181]

Leonardo and Miguelangelo were very neat in perspective. Precision is part of their signature. I am not surprised.

[@jayjayjellybean5907]

The map is no good. Doesn't have any "leap of faith" locations.

[@amirulamin6329]

Assassin's Creed Reference

[@akulah126]

assassino!

[@cahilla54]

JayJay Jellybean I miss the good old Assassin’s Creed days

[@iluda2353]

requiescat in pace

[@damnson6151]

CAZZO

[@dgrdst5810]

"so have you heard of the IQ test Mr Vinci" "Yeh, one of my earlier creations as a child"

[@michaelpan7510]

"Mere child's play compared to the stainless steel rocket designs I am working on... unfortunate that nostrodamus was snooping around my workshop."

[@albertguss109]

Women have tested the highest on modern IQ tests.

[@edvardtosmanov5062]

Albert Guss And...?

[@Terrible0x0Trivium]

HEY! women might test higher; men might. But where do bees fit in the equation?

[@saulescamilla3605]

@@albertguss109 well that makes sense, they can make a phone call, put on make up, eat in the car, fix there hair a bit, and crash all at the same time! 😂

[@nanilama7016]

The days when VOX upload heartwarming n great videos.....

[@sassypants2682]

Fun fact: They would catapult people through the sky and if they survived they'd ask: "What'd you see?" and then draw it.

[@evanhymas3177]

I can’t tell if your serious or joking

[@switchstatement568]

We're not americans

[@alexcisneros2980]

Very true

[@macarsasi5340]

@@evanhymas3177 it's a joke, isnt that obviouz

[@racerschin]

lol. underestimated comment.

[@liamvelasco2737]

Da Vinci is the type of dude that’s good at everything.

[@mmgg1671]

Right he was a complete genius

[@bookreader2832]

He’s the dude who had possibility to get A in every subject in school

[@thehammurabichode7994]

A polymath, and the best there was at things that wouldn't even enter the public consciousness for years. This was somehow the case for many things.

[@paulfuray8557]

@@bookreader2832 Da Vinci so great he graded his “teachers”.

[@FunnyAnimatorJimTV]

Renaissance man

[@Dxco31]

1502 : Da vinci : start pulling drones

[@luisvasquezurbina6533]

Me sorprende que tantas personas encuentren esto tan increíble. Leonardo tenía los conocimientos y le fue encargado un trabajo. Lo genial es la idea del método y la paciencia para lograrlo, pero no tiene nada de imposible, solo requiere ser riguroso y tener algunos instrumentos que existen desde miles de años antes, algo para medir distancias, una plomada, un compás, y tiempo para realizarlo. Se podría hacer con cualquier ciudad y su vuelve mucho más fácil con una ciudad amurallada, ya que te entrega un marco para más referencias.

[@nitikapp]

Everytime I read about cartographers making world/city maps in those times, it amazes me. I COULD NEVER

[@kunalsghotekar9843]

Me: So how Yes are you Vinci: Smart

[@mitaskeledzija6269]

Damn nice one

[@Bald_and_Brown]

KunaLS Bread Boi Original

[@derpydetectives989]

Lol

[@fayevda]

Bravo

[@robenkhoury7079]

😂😂😅

[@danitestalkr]

Da Vinci: the most OP human in history This man was achievements overkill His areas of interest included invention, drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, paleontology, and cartography.

[@shubhamchopra2003]

Godly

[@adityarajkhowalama]

He was something else

[@nvondoom545]

Thats why I love him

[@danielcerdena1825]

Meanwhile me checking in a calculator if 1+1=3

[@fathanyusrizal]

@@danielcerdena1825 stop the cap

[@SuperRedSpaceCouch]

God these musical opening notes on this video are so beautiful

[@Joshfortian15]

That flex at the end showing how far maps have come.

[@raedan3722]

Most people forget that Leonardo Da Vinci is also a very close and trusted ally of Italy's legendary hero: *Ezio Auditore da Firenze*

[@martin.mp4]

I would lose my mind trying to do this.

[@NextLevelEntertainment]

Not when you realize how much time people had back then. Today we are way too busy and programmed to be utterly impatient. Otherwise this was normal back then.

[@rjmun580]

You would lose your mind using a compass, something to measure distances and a protractor? This is very basic surveying and was in common use well over a thousand years before his time.

[@alexhjc8]

@@NextLevelEntertainment... we have more time than before

[@smurf3684]

@@rjmun580 yes but doing that for a whole town is mind numbing

[@menace2societies]

you we would lose our mind working for 1 min and using our gadgets for 15 hours

[@stevebrickshitta870]

Leonardo, he does it again. I'm fascinated and should be more surprised.

[@PanglossDr]

Very nice, I've been to Imola many times and driven on those roads.

[@yoshikagekira4471]

Conspiracy: Leonardo actually made the first F-117 Nighthawk and took pictures from above.

[@alexwang982]

He could just use a drone

[@michaelpan7510]

@@alexwang982 pfttt Child's play! He used... a fleet of satellites :D and space telescopes...

[@atreyoss5050]

He actually built the USS Enterprise and was able to take pictures from above while orbiting around Earth

[@skyline3071]

bukk rockets love f117 love from serbia

[@chrislaflamme7300]

Dude... it’s not hard to get that view considering how much time he spent on board alien ships studying all there tech and figuring out was to make it work with what primitive abilities he had on the floor 🤷🏼‍♂️ It’s a no Brainer 😂

[@Sathish_12]

Einstein: smartest person ever Leonardo: Hold my beer!

[@thai2go]

Tesla : You both hold mines!

[@zyadalzahrani971]

@@k0W_ IQ maybe

[@ragusauce6573]

@@k0W_ r/woosh

[@xiaochaoo]

Donald Trump: racist Albert Einstein: Hold my beer

[@holisticaconsultingv]

But Einstein only dominated the physics, but Leonardo was engineer, a wonderful painter, actor, handsome, strong, etc. Leonardo was a genius.

[@kartikparmar3496]

He also won an Oscar for Revenant in 2016 . A versatile and underrated personality indeed.

[@danduong1445]

Living in the modern era, if I was brought back to the middle age, I would never be able to think of these inventions

[@tokiesgalore]

For those wanting to know what song he used in the first minute of the video: The song is called Hadron by Mike Sajic.

[@Deisinator]

You are my fcking hero! This comment should be on top!

[@spectacularspaghetti1849]

Wow, that part of the town hasnt changed much since 1502

[@asthenamesuggests9513]

Exactly 🤣😂🤣

[@Professicchio]

A lot of cities in Italy are like that.

[@tka3]

They continue to maintain their historical legacy. A reason why many places/towns in Italy are UNESCO world heritage sites.

[@macarsasi5340]

Yeah suprising

[@hik2221]

​@Mike Seork Yeah but Italy has the most UNESCO world heritage sites in the world, and another fun fact, Italy has what it's now being believed as one of the oldest cities in the world, Matera (Basilicata, southern Italy), researchers believe that the area that has now become city, was (continuosly) inhabited since around the 10th millenium BC, also, in 2019, Matera was elected "Capital of Culture" in the E.U. Worth checking it out!

[@lac19951]

When you have enough time, dedication, passion and focus, you can do great things. Things that seem great for those who don't have time to do that. For those who did great things, they push to do more.

[@zdwr80]

Picture was made before the structure was built. Wow, what a mastermind.

[@navycalvin9337]

0:32 Cesare Borgia Born : 1475 Died : 1507 Reason of Death : *Assassinated*

[@akulah126]

"we work in the shadow to serve the light"

[@ratface1208]

Ezio killed him

[@FRISHR]

Simple, he asked Ezio to synchronize on top of towers.

[@i.cyarrell]

I've been looking for a comment like this

[@gelarjuventini]

well it’s not simple as you say so, that’s still complicated

[@dangerx69]

😂😂

[@flood3397]

he roam the sky with his flying machine.

[@MuhammadAhmed-ow3qh]

Oh yeaah!

[@michaelcastillo3231]

That’s absolutely amazing.

[@ManvendraSK]

Imagine writing code that gets to production without any QA but actually works.

[@edwinfredy1050]

Imagine how unimaginable some technology like Google Earth would have been for Da Vinci. Leads us to think how unimaginable something 500 years from now will be for us.

[@gavinjohnson4093]

Edwin Fredy won’t be a habitable world in 500 we be lucky for 150

[@Official2Shitty]

@@gavinjohnson4093 people having being saying the world is ending ever since Jesus had been here

[@macarsasi5340]

@@Official2Shitty agreed

[@Deguu68]

Not really, humans today have a far greater sight into sciencefiction then people 500 years ago.

[@kebeiwjwgseywgw5590]

@@Deguu68 its the opposite, science has been growing at an exponantial rate, from 1500 to 1800 technology didnt change that much but 20 years ago the idea of smartphones was unreal

[@jinn1861]

He just copied it from Google maps

[@QuAntique]

Still playing with sticks?

[@andreataino8525]

You’re just envious

[@sheafitzsimons5161]

No apple maps you can see clewrly

[@sheafitzsimons5161]

No apple maps you can see clearly

[@marshallm6834]

Shea Fitzsimons he’s being sarcastic

[@peacedos1]

Imola: Hires one of the greatest artist and developer in human history to draw a map Me: Just opens google maps

[@yuvraman]

Two observations: The transition you've described would additionally benefit from an elaboration of what you call 'informationl' as a type of new information (mathematical) that was sought after at this particular cultural moment in history. The second is seeing in what way Leonardo's perspective has defined they way we expect our satellites to see for us? Since possibly at such distance from a satellite to earth the angle would be distorted, curved and in need of compensation of the optics in order for us to see what we expact to be informed by, Leonardo's mathematical information perspective model of map-making. Hope these observations are of interest to you or anyone. Sorry for being so dry :)

[@aliqazilbash5231]

I always used to think Di Vinci as more of a painter than a mathematician but his use of orthographic projection ultimately led me to discover his history as an military engineer. His work has been extremely insightful in personal design projects

[@omarrp14]

Nah, Ezio Auditore probably used a glider and then described what he saw to Da Vinci

[@Firdaustravelmalaysia]

The most annoying mission ever lol

[@volkanhasanbulli]

@@musemooch thats why its so precise 😂😂

[@syedyadullah6060]

And the leo said " Gracia Seniore"

[@fuhgawz3636]

EUREKA!!! WE MUST USE FIREEE

[@praneeshak4406]

EXACTLY MY THOUGHTS

[@timothyrussell1179]

So in other words, he conducted a survey. (Edit: You would not need to wait until satellite imagery existed to be able to "check if it was right." You could check his work by measuring distances or angles which were mapped but not measured afield, much in the way a surveyor can calculate the error of closure for a traverse.) This was not standard at the time, so it's impressive given the technology then, but there is no surprise in how he accomplished this it seems obvious.

[@Flaretree]

Leonardo da vinci just enabled creative mode

[@wakkyai]

Tadataka Inoh, made an entire “satellite” map of the country of Japan, in 1800. It’s was very accurate, barely different from what we see today.

[@doubleaa6980]

Leonardo only made it 300 years earlier.

[@darkerknight7010]

That’s amazing!

[@mr.ricochet8603]

Nice! He got ONE skill similar to Leonardo, and 300 years later.

[@lavishmermaid8816]

That really is amazing, but Tadataka did not make the map of whole Japan. I mean he did, but the only thing that was done in whole was the coastline. The cities were not drawn very accurately and sadly he could not end the work he had been doing for 17 years and passed away. Both of them are top level intelligents, but to be fair Inoh had a lot of help and in fact, his surveying team finished his work 3 years after he died. His work is impressive, really, but Leo is on another level.

[@conniemendes8515]

The more informative the video the more weirder the comments

[@serendipitousslim1529]

Extremely unrelated to the point of this video but I couldn’t help but notice; is the noise played at 2:41 NOT the same one used as the foundation for the beat to Lockjaw by Kodak Black and French Montana?

[@nathanapplegate5374]

Just goes to show how much of a genius Leonardo Da Vinci was.

[@indroc5500]

Da Vinci was probably the greatest, human species has produced. Ever.

[@auto360gear]

Rather Da Vinci was probably the only one who utilised full potential of human brain..

[@wake_up_samurai77]

I'm greater than him

[@merijnmilan]

Well, I find that hard to believe, but he was certainly great.

[@iranianintelligenceagency9337]

@@auto360gear Him and Newton

[@user-xc8jq3rg3c]

@@wake_up_samurai77 yes.

[@igino1948]

You will need your entire life just to know all the Leonardo Da Vinci's creations or inventions. Italy needs people like this nowadays

[@NoName-hg6cc]

Italy has plenty of great clever people but don't make the environment food enough for them to shine. Sadly enough

[@spaniardsrmoors6817]

Highest IQ outside of Asia,

[@GOODBOY-vt1cf]

thank you so much

[@erickamador6300]

Vox: “So how did he do it?” Da Vinci in his grave: “I was off a tab”

[@mr.magnussen1289]

Fun fact: Im around 5 km from Vinci (Leondardos home town) while watching this video,.

[@hoemazing5796]

*whoa*

[@sethgyellins]

That not how fun facts are supposed to be used

[@singharpan9859]

That's actually amazing.

[@sug0]

Fun fact: I live in Imola while watching this video. Bonus fun fact: that map is very famous here.

[@devekhande9204]

No fun in that

[@Caboose02301]

Imagine, living in the Renaissance and seeing Leonardo working in the streets..a craggy old man measuring the streets with a funky looking wheel. Would you talk to him? Something tells me I would have..

[@doigo2000]

I think he wasn't that old when he made the map tho, but yeah I'd totally talk to him.

[@sambitbasu6261]

He was quite famous

[@MisterMister5893]

Are you suggesting there are geniuses amongst us in modern times disguised and misunderstood as homeless vagabond?

[@peteocean2848]

Lay off the sauce

[@jonclement]

any mention of the lines emanating from the central square. Maybe a tower? Looks like he did ~20 degree clock wise angles to help line outer significant points back to the center

[@chukstristan3605]

How can I get the link to the musical scores of this video? Couldn't find it on Spotify or KZbin 😢

[@sdgedfegw6508]

he simply built a warp-speed spacecraft and made that map using it

[@carben2300]

My guess before watching the video: he climbed a tree Edit: I was wrong

[@default8274]

yeah, but he could climb to a high tower

[@amblypygi6651]

Underrated.

[@pfzht]

Trigonometry in a land survey. Apparently future tech :/

[@LeBeautiful]

An actual pioneer ahead of his time.

[@carloberruti178]

...and by the way, you got Imola pronounced right (with the stress on the “I” and not on the “o” as most non-native Italian speakers do). Great video - as usual

[@muhammadradityaadjiepratam6502]

Well, his existence actually answer all the time traveler questions

[@hihing3455]

Imagine if he was born in 1900s or 2000s...man is thousand years ahead of his time.

[@dragenmaster5385]

it was 1500s lul

[@nika5318]

In his time everyone worked in one profession that they were good at and mostly started at a young age from a master perfecting their skill their whole life. These days everyone gets the same education in every field and he wouldn’t have the time to explore his genius

[@068LAICEPS]

@@nika5318 besides now you have to have a degree to be considered in any field. You have to publish papers and other stuff or simply you are nothing and probably a stealer.

[@leversandpulleys9274]

he would be a dank meme admin

[@nika5318]

ELKIN CORDOBA I mean in school lol. We have to have at least average knowledge in all the subjects where as in that time everyone has one profession and did that their whole life.

[@spec_wasted]

We need more Da Vinci's today

[@christianwestling2019]

As someone who just took a boating license and learned all about charts and degrees, this makes alot of sense. Also, I have to go to the town of Imola, next time I go to the race track.

[@digitalgravity3563]

Imagine him being alive in our time with these technologies now.

[@pollard068]

Heroin would probably derail him

[@carl5535]

Some type of substance most likely I'm really curious to see where he was on the 'spectrum'

[@LiudasLT]

i know easier way go to bed, astral project, rise above your town wake up and draw all that, simple, when you use right tools

[@LeonMacCheese]

lol

[@corywiedenbeck1562]

You give demons dominion every time you do that

[@LeonMacCheese]

Crazy people have the most fun it seems

[@BootyRealDreamMurMurs]

youd need alot of spiritual stones that contains atleast 20% Oxygen

[@scrungedigger8625]

😂😂

[@animagi6844]

hands down the smartest man who has ever lived

[@drdoom1786]

I bet there were many other "da Vinci" thousand years ago

[@denji5604]

Leonardo had already done all the sidequest before he stepped to main quest

[@pegeonpera]

_da Vinci achieved many feats some consider to be unnatural_

[@yahsgracemercy1676]

Assistance from fallen angels

[@chimakinor]

ironic

[@Mikewee777]

Where can I learn such secrets ? - not from a jedi.

[@Tijjain]

Is it possible to learn these feats?

[@Drownedinblood]

@@Mikewee777 not from a Borgia.

[@TheInstitution]

The greatest mind that has ever lived and probably will, like he is deservedly called 'The Renaissance Man'. If i can truly choose only one person deserving and bestow the title 'Genius', Leonardo is the most obvious choice and by a distance. ⚡

[@MakkerDon]

Nikola Tesla

[@christinehandy3692]

@@MakkerDon hes next level too. Same with Newton and Euler

[@davideb.4290]

He was "the rennaisance man" not because of how intelligent he was ( that's just part of it ) he is the symbol of rennaisance because he was able to do anything. From building new machines, to paint the Gioconda, from designing a parachute when planes didn't exist yet, to designing buildings and statues,from studying science and physics to build tanks. The most valuable quality of a rennaisance man is to be able to do anyyhing, and he is the best example of a guy who can do anything

[@spaniardsrmoors6817]

@@MakkerDon Not even close.

[@thefall3418]

You found another one how exciting

[@alexgary9356]

Geniuesly done