

He produced more than 35,000 words and 500 sketches dealing with flying machines, the nature of air, and bird flight. With the rediscovery of the Leonardo codices, the artist who painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper was recast as the Renaissance visionary who saw the modern world before it was realized.Īmong the many subjects Leonardo studied, the possibility of human mechanical flight held particular fascination. It was only after 1800 that the record of his intellectual and technical accomplishments, the thousands of pages of writings and drawings that we collectively refer to today as Leonardo’s codices, began to surface, be studied, and published.

Little or nothing of his sculpture or engineering works survived, and his notebooks, the only surviving evidence of his insatiable curiosity and fertile mind regarding science and technology, were long hidden away, dispersed in private hands. “They went under the water, were able to recover that second individual, bring them on board, unfortunately they were unresponsive, transported them to EMS, unfortunately, declared that they had passed away.” said Gurtler.Until the nineteenth century, Leonardo da Vinci was generally known only as a painter. Divers with the sheriff’s department found the body of Anderson in the wreckage. Seaman, who the Coast Guard believes was the pilot, was hoisted from the water. It was upside down and Seaman was in the water, according to the Charlevoix County Sheriff’s Office. Phillip Gurtler, a spokesperson for the Coast Guard.Ĭoast Guard members found the plane in the lake between Whisky Island and Beaver Island.

They very quickly found the aircraft, and they found one person was in the water,” said Lt. “Fortunately, we did have a Coast Guard helicopter kind of in the area on a training mission, so we were able to divert, send the helicopter to the scene. Another person, 65-year-old Beverly Anderson of Lowell, was found dead in the plane wreckage, according to the Charlevoix County Sheriff’s Office. Coast Guard to the airport where he was taken to a Petoskey hospital. Randy Seaman, 70, of Lowell, was pulled from Lake Michigan and airlifted by the U.S. (WOOD) - Two people from Lowell were pulled from the water by the Coast Guard after their plane crashed near Beaver Island in northern Michigan, deputies said.
