Leonardo BBC

The Man Who Wanted To Know Everything (1x1)

Air date: Apr 20, 2003

Learning his craft at the heart of the Renaissance movement in Florence, Leonardo survives arrest to win the patronage of the powerful tyrant Ludivico Sforza, Duke of Milan. While working for Sforza, he paints Madonna of the Rocks, works out why the sky is blue and becomes the first person to properly dissect a human body. He also becomes a practical engineer. The program builds and tries out two designs from that period - an armored war vehicle and a parachute.