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By: Barretta, Gene
Price: $1.50
Publisher: Jun-14
Seller ID: 457819
ISBN: 545106338
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
By: Gene Barretta
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Square Fish: Jun-16
Seller ID: 480764
ISBN: 1250079608
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
An introduction to Leonardo da Vinci's genius focusing on his famous notebook sketches and the modern inventions they predicted.
In 1781, Thomas Paine came up with a model for a single-span bridge; in 1887, Adolf Eugen Fick made the first pair of contact lenses; and in 1907, Paul Cornu built the first helicopter. But Leonardo da Vinci thought of all these ideas more than five hundred years ago
At once an artist, inventor, engineer, and scientist, da Vinci wrote and drew detailed descriptions of what would later become hang gliders, automobiles, robots, and much more. In...
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