Displaying 1 of 1 2007 Format: Book Author: Laurenza, Domenico. Title: Leonardo on flight / Domenico Laurenza ; [translation, Joan M. Reifsnyder]. Publisher, Date: Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, ©2004. Description: 119 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm Summary: 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. -- amazon.com Subjects: Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 -- Knowledge -- Aeronautics. Aeronautics -- History -- Pictorial works. Genre: Illustrated works. Other Title: Leonardo, il volo. English Notes: Translation of: Leonardo, il volo. Previously published: Florence : Giunti, ©2004. Includes bibliographical references (pages 118-119). Translated from the Italian: Leonardo : il volo. Contents: The origins of an idea -- Force diagrams -- Nature in the foreground -- The primacy of theory. LCCN: 2007928520 ISBN: 0801887666 9780801887666 Other Number: 153582530 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 197687 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 629.1309 Laurenza Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
