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  2. Leonardo's aerial screw - Wikipedia

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    Detail of Leonardo's "aerial screw" The page of Paris Manuscript B, folio 83v, that depicts Leonardo's aerial screw, held by the Institut de France The Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci drew his design for an "aerial screw" in the late 1480s, while he was employed as a military engineer by Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan from 1494 to 1499.

  3. Ornithopter - Wikipedia

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    Leonardo da Vinci's ornithopter design. In 1841, an ironsmith kalfa (journeyman), Manojlo, who "came to Belgrade from Vojvodina", [2] attempted flying with a device described as an ornithopter ("flapping wings like those of a bird").

  4. Codex on the Flight of Birds - Wikipedia

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    The codex open at folios 7v–8r. Codex on the Flight of Birds is a relatively short codex from c. 1505 by Leonardo da Vinci. [1]It comprises 18 folios and measures 21 × 15 centimetres.

  5. Codex Windsor - Wikipedia

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    It is mentioned that the Codex Windsor also deals with Leonardo's incessant study of horses, their movements, their postures, etc. [1] [4] [5] After Leonardo's death most of his manuscripts and drawings were kept at his villa near Vaprio d'Adda, Lombardy, by his student and heir Francesco Melzi. [2] His son, Orazio Melzi, inherited the ...

  6. Early flying machines - Wikipedia

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    Da Vinci's realisation that manpower alone was not sufficient for sustained flight was rediscovered independently in the 17th century by Giovanni Alfonso Borelli and Robert Hooke. Hooke realised that some form of engine would be necessary and in 1655 made a spring-powered ornithopter model which was apparently able to fly.

  7. Rare drawings of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper on sale

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  8. Great Kite - Wikipedia

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    The Great Kite, Leonardo's flying machine in codex on flight. The Great Kite (Italian: il Grande Nibbio) was a wooden machine designed by Leonardo da Vinci.Leonardo realized it between the end of the 15th Century and the beginning of the 16th Century.

  9. File:Leonardo Design for a Flying Machine, c. 1488.jpg

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