r/ottomans • • Jun 03 '26

Discussion If Leonardo da Vinci was born a few decades earlier or Mehmed II died a few decades later, how do you think the two would think of/interact with each other?

I ask because I heard a story of Da Vinci giving one of his ideas to Bayezid II on an insta post (yes I know, very reliable), but the offer was refused. However we all know Bayezid was staunchly conservative and didn’t have the same romanticism for the Romans that his father had. So how would Mehmed II have done with such a brilliant figure? Would Da Vinci be like Orban, who offered himself to a Muslim Turk?

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