How did leonardo da vinci's notebooks demonstrate the inventiveness of the italian renaissance? they described a new system of government to replace the city-state. they included plans for machines too advanced to be built at that time. they were the first series of private, secular notebooks written in europe. the rules of pictorial perspective were first stated in one of his notebooks?

they included plans for machines too advanced to be built at that time.

Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks demonstrate the inventiveness of the Italian Renaissance by including plans for machines too advanced to be built at that time. Some of this plans were later used to design machines like the helicopter, other could not still be built. Some historians have tried to build those machines with the technologies available at the time of Da Vinci, and failed, proving that the scientist was well ahead of his time.

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