Leonardo on Flight

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Johns Hopkins University Press, 29 août 2007 - 123 pages

A genius for all time, Leonardo da Vinci contributed artistic masterpieces, spectacular inventions, and scientific research to Western culture.

This beautifully illustrated volume reconstructs the origin of one of the most fascinating and fundamental aspects of Leonardo's life and work: his dream of human flight. With masterfully reproduced drawings from his vast library of manuscripts and folios—especially from the Codex "On the Flight of Birds" and the Codex "Atlanticus"—this book traces the development of Leonardo's theories and experiments over time. Detailed descriptions and unique readings of these exquisite sketches, letters, and notes reveal the inner workings of the artist-scientist.

Leonardo on Flight begins with the drawings from his years in Florence making theatrical devices ( ingegni) and then moves to the marvelous flying machine—the ornithopter—constructed in Milan during the same period he completed The Last Supper and the equestrian statue Francesco Sforza for Duke Ludovic il Moro . After 1500, Leonardo's work returned to nature and focused on the flight of birds, the dynamic potential of the human body, and the physics of wind. The final chapter of the book considers the last years of Leonardo's life and his escape into theory and whimsical experiments such as flying wax figurines, inflated bullocks' intestines, and automatons.

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Table des matières

Section 1
35
Section 2
49
Section 3
61

3 autres sections non affichées

Autres éditions - Tout afficher

Leonardo: On Flight
Domenico Laurenza
Aperçu limité - 2004

Expressions et termes fréquents

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À propos de l'auteur (2007)

Domenico Laurenza devotes himself to the history of images in the Renaissance, history of scientific iconography, and, in particular, to the work of Leonardo da Vinci. He collaborates with the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza in Florence and carries out research at the University of Siena. He is the scientific director and author of the five-volume work Leonardo. Uomo del Rinascimento. Genio del futuro.

Informations bibliographiques

TitreLeonardo on Flight
Leonardo on Flight
AuteurDomenico Laurenza
Éditionillustrée, réimprimée
ÉditeurJohns Hopkins University Press, 2007
ISBN0801887666, 9780801887666
Longueur123 pages
  
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