Leonardo Da Vinci: Renaissance Humanist, Naturalist, Artist, Scientist Who Was Leonardo Da Vinci?
Leonardo Da Vinci, born in the village of Vinci in Tuscany, Italy, on April 15, 1452, was one of the most important figures of the Renaissance. While people may realize that he as an important artist, though, they don’t generally realize how important he was as an early skeptic, naturalist, materialist, and scientist. There is no evidence that Leonardo Da Vinci was an atheist, but he was an early a role model in how to approach both scientific and artistic problems from a naturalistic, skeptical perspective. Modern atheistic humanism owes a great deal to Renaissance Humanism generally as well as many
