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aerohydro · 3 December 2008, 09:04 PM

Hello All

Got alerted to this thanks to a posting over at BoingBoing. This particular Da Vinci Flying Machine will soon be put on display at an American public library. There is quite a good website showing the machine being built from start to finish. Whilst on the topic of Leonardo, I recently came across this book:

Leonardo's Machines
by Domenico Laurenza
ISBN 978-0715324448

This is a very interesting and engaging publication, as it takes over 40 of Leonardo's sketches - including those of his ornithopters - and renders them as computer images, showing exactly how they were to meant to work.

Cheers,
Paul

3 December 2008, 09:04 PM	#156 (permalink)
aerohydro Forum Ace Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Christchurch, New Zealand Posts: 918	Hello All Got alerted to this thanks to a posting over at BoingBoing. This particular Da Vinci Flying Machine will soon be put on display at an American public library. There is quite a good website showing the machine being built from start to finish. Whilst on the topic of Leonardo, I recently came across this book: Leonardo's Machines by Domenico Laurenza ISBN 978-0715324448 This is a very interesting and engaging publication, as it takes over 40 of Leonardo's sketches - including those of his ornithopters - and renders them as computer images, showing exactly how they were to meant to work. Cheers, Paul