Yokohama
Grasmere
Herculaneum
Amboise, France
Leonardo’s final resting place, he died of a stroke here in 1519. While he was heralded in life as a great man of the Renaissance, his astronomical studies remained largely unknown due to his leaving many of his notes unpublished. As a result, many of Leonardo’s discoveries regarding the solar system—the physical features of the sun and moon, various phenomena of optics, and astronomy-related inventions and experiments—were lost and rediscovered later, resulting in the credit going to other great scientists.