Imaginary Gadgets 0005: The fantastic machines of Leonardo
Imaginary Gadgets 0005: The fantastic machines of Leonardo
Who: Leonardo da Vinci
What: plans and sketches of imaginary objects from Da Vinci's surviving codices.
When: circa 1480 – 1519
Where: Florence, Milan, Rome, Bologna, Venice, Amboise
How: schemes of cosmopolitan polymathic artist-engineer.
Why: glory, intellectual mastery, royal commissions.
Leonardo da Vinci is the world's most famous inventor of imaginary objects. At his death, he left some 18,000 pages of plans, schemes, drawings and
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