leonardo da vinci (1452-1519)
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Painter, architect, engineer, botanist, city planner, inventor, scientist, anatomist… Renaissance Man. The Last Supper (1498); Fresco, 460 x 880 cm (15 x 29 ft); Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie (Refectory), Milan. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Painter, architect, engineer, botanist, city planner, inventor, scientist, anatomist… Renaissance Man
The Last Supper (1498); Fresco, 460 x 880 cm (15 x 29 ft); Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie (Refectory), Milan
Portrait of Mona Lisa (1503-1506), also known as La Gioconda, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo; 1503-06; Oil on wood, 77 x 53 cm (30 x 20 7/8 in); Musee du Louvre, Paris
The notebooks: 4,000 pages of notes and sketches
Shade and shadows
Weapons
Siege machines
Rapid deploymentbridges
Landscapes
Nature
Architecture
Town planning
Facial expressions
Anatomy
Machines and inventions: “the organs.” Chain, crankshaft, gear, spring
Winches, block and tackle
Mining machine
Cranes, hoists
Worm gear
Pumps, Archimedes' screw
Filecutter
Multi-tasking
The firstsubmarine
A flyingmachine
Winged flyingmachine
"I think, if this screw instrument is well made, that means from linen starched (to block its pores) and is turned rapidly, then this said screw will find its female in the air and climb upwards."
http://www.museumseries.com/airscrew.htmEnvisioning the helicopter
The first robot, 1495, an armored knight