ing his hasty departure.He stayed there until 1516 when he moved to Cloux, France,where he stayed with his pupil Melzi. While in Milan he wasnamed Court Painter to King Louis XII of France, who was thenresiding in Milan. For the next six years he traveled from Milan toFlorence repeatedly to look after his inheritance. In 1514 hetraveled to Rome under the patronage of Pope Leo X. During thistime Leonardo's energy was focused mainly on his scientificexperiments. He then moved to France to serve King Francis I. It ishere in Chateau de Cloux that he died on May 2,1519 . Leonardo constantly reworked his drawings, studies andmechanical theories. His observations of the motion of water areamazingly accurate. In Leonardo's Studies of Water Formation, theflow patterns observed are swirling around , then below as it formsa pool. Using modern slow motion cameras' scientists now studythe same effects that Leonardo wrote about and observed with hisnaked eye. Another study of water and wind is his ApocalypticVisions. This is a collected study of hurricanes and storms. Inthese highly detailed drawings the pen lines so carefully markedexplode into action similar to the storms themselves. Leonardo'smathematical drawings are also highly skilled. In a math formulaLeonardo proved the theory of perpetual motion false but it stillintrigued him. Among his vast notes were small ideas for aperpetual motion machine. His ideas for completing this taskinvolved an unbalanced wheel that would revolve forever,conserving its energy. However these machines were neverconstructed. Another mathematical drawing was the Polyhedron.This three dimensional figure represented proportions to him "notonly in numbers and measurements but also in sounds, weights,positions and in whatsoever power there may be". The notebooks of Leonardo contain sketches and plans forinventions that came into existence almost five-hundred years afterthe Renaissance. Leonardo pract...
