Leonardo da Vinci
The Scientist
by Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich
Front Cover:
This is a guide to an exhibition about the scientist, artist and inventor. The book was published in 1951. The soft cover book measures approximately 7 ½ inches by 9 ¾ inches. This is a former library copy and has the requisite markings. The pages show no signs of rips. There is a price sticker on the back cover. There is a large center fold out depicting the time line of the Life and Times of Leonardo da Vinci. The over all condition of the book is very good.
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Top: Mona Lisa (The Louvre, Paris)
Bottom: The Last Supper (Santa Maria Delle Grazie, Milan)
Top Left: Machine Guns
Top Right: Military Tank, designed for breech-loading cannon. Mobility based on four independent wheels driven by man power. Shaped to withstand the impact of cannon balls (British Museum).
Bottom Left: Transmission, Forerunner of the modern automobile differential which provides for the difference ins peed between the two drive wheels when rounding a curve.
Bottom Right: Rotating Bridge.
Top: Flying Machine (Ornithopter). This machine consisted of a wooden frame, two huge wings, a series of ropes and pulleys, and a windlass. Lying prone in the frame, his feet in leather stirrups connected by pulleys to the wings, the flyer was to move his feet up and down to flap the wings. At the same time he was to operate the windlass with his arms and guide the machine (Codes Atlanticus, 276 v b and 302 v a)
Bottom Left: Parachute. Pyramid-shaped tent of linen, as Leonardo called it, which is believed to have been tried out successfully in his own day from a tower especially built for the purpose. (Codex Atlanticus, 381 v a)
Bottom Right: Helicopter. Scale model of a design for an aerial screw, heralding the helicopter of the present day, and also credited by many authorities as being the forerunner of the modern propeller. Motive power was to be applied by a spring-driven mechanism to operate in the manner of modern clockwork. (Ms B. 83 v)
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