Book Description
A collection of pop-ups and illustrations based on the personal notebooks and sketches of Leonardo da Vinci. Includes 3-D pop-ups of six of da Vinci's most famous ideas that never took physical form - until now.
Author : Jaspre Bark
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,21 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Inventions
ISBN : 9781592239085
A collection of pop-ups and illustrations based on the personal notebooks and sketches of Leonardo da Vinci. Includes 3-D pop-ups of six of da Vinci's most famous ideas that never took physical form - until now.
Author : Jaspre Bark
Publisher : Walker
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 18,14 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Inventions
ISBN : 9781406318289
A celebration of one of the world's most creative minds, this book recreates da Vinci's original notes, drawings and inventions.
Author : Domenico Laurenza
Publisher : David & Charles
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,77 MB
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780715324448
Presents diagrams of inventions from the drawings in Leonardo da Vinci's original notebooks, categorizing them into flying, war, and hydraulic machines and detailing how each invention would work.
Author : Matthias Paul Scholz
Publisher : Apress
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 37,46 MB
Release : 2008-09-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1430202580
The popularity of NXT and the success of The Da Vinci Code are combined in this fascinating book. Projects for building and programming five of Leonardo's most famous inventions are covered in detail: the tank, the helicopter, the catapult, the flying machine, and the revolving bridge. This book is written for serious NXT programmers and covers the most popular programming environments available today. The book is abundantly illustrated and includes sample code and countless best-practices strategies.
Author : Leonardo da Vinci
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 1118 pages
File Size : 16,22 MB
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465514147
A singular fatality has ruled the destiny of nearly all the most famous of Leonardo da Vinci's works. Two of the three most important were never completed, obstacles having arisen during his life-time, which obliged him to leave them unfinished; namely the Sforza Monument and the Wall-painting of the Battle of Anghiari, while the third—the picture of the Last Supper at Milan—has suffered irremediable injury from decay and the repeated restorations to which it was recklessly subjected during the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries. Nevertheless, no other picture of the Renaissance has become so wellknown and popular through copies of every description. Vasari says, and rightly, in his Life of Leonardo, "that he laboured much more by his word than in fact or by deed", and the biographer evidently had in his mind the numerous works in Manuscript which have been preserved to this day. To us, now, it seems almost inexplicable that these valuable and interesting original texts should have remained so long unpublished, and indeed forgotten. It is certain that during the XVIth and XVIIth centuries their exceptional value was highly appreciated. This is proved not merely by the prices which they commanded, but also by the exceptional interest which has been attached to the change of ownership of merely a few pages of Manuscript. That, notwithstanding this eagerness to possess the Manuscripts, their contents remained a mystery, can only be accounted for by the many and great difficulties attending the task of deciphering them. The handwriting is so peculiar that it requires considerable practice to read even a few detached phrases, much more to solve with any certainty the numerous difficulties of alternative readings, and to master the sense as a connected whole. Vasari observes with reference to Leonardos writing: "he wrote backwards, in rude characters, and with the left hand, so that any one who is not practised in reading them, cannot understand them". The aid of a mirror in reading reversed handwriting appears to me available only for a first experimental reading. Speaking from my own experience, the persistent use of it is too fatiguing and inconvenient to be practically advisable, considering the enormous mass of Manuscripts to be deciphered. And as, after all, Leonardo's handwriting runs backwards just as all Oriental character runs backwards—that is to say from right to left—the difficulty of reading direct from the writing is not insuperable. This obvious peculiarity in the writing is not, however, by any means the only obstacle in the way of mastering the text. Leonardo made use of an orthography peculiar to himself; he had a fashion of amalgamating several short words into one long one, or, again, he would quite arbitrarily divide a long word into two separate halves; added to this there is no punctuation whatever to regulate the division and construction of the sentences, nor are there any accents—and the reader may imagine that such difficulties were almost sufficient to make the task seem a desperate one to a beginner. It is therefore not surprising that the good intentions of some of Leonardo s most reverent admirers should have failed.
Author : Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 38,18 MB
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : Inventions
ISBN : 9780684157375
Includes 102 of Leonardo's drawings for tanks, flying machines, helicopters, ballistic missiles, and other machines and weapons, with captions that explain each invention.
Author : Margaret Rice Cooper
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 14,57 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Inventions
ISBN :
Over 100 of Leonardo's amazing inventions and pipe dreams are described and related to the modern world. Grades 7-10.
Author : Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 17,57 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Art
ISBN :
Includes 102 of Leonardo's drawings for tanks, flying machines, helicopters, ballistic missiles, and other machines and weapons, with captions that explain each invention.
Author : Charles Gibbs-Smith
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 31,48 MB
Release : 1975
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Jake Williams
Publisher : Pavilion Children's
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,63 MB
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781843654988
The award-winning author and illustrator behind Darwin’s Voyage of Discovery and Really Remarkable Reptiles turns his attention to the Renaissance man: Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci was a master of art, architecture, engineering, mathematics and more. Discover his relationship with the natural world, his futuristic inventions and the breadth of his artistic skill in this spellbinding celebration of his genius. Follow his early years – born to a poor mother, educated in an artist’s studio and receiving no formal education, it is amazing that an innate fire of curiosity and imagination fuelled this man to achieve extraordinary success and a place amongst history’s elite. Learn about his legacy today – the bewitching power of the world’s most famous portrait, the Mona Lisa - as well as the influence of his inventions in modern daily life. This gorgeous hardback is filled with Jake William’s characteristically stylish illustrations.