Screen LibraryThe innovators behind Leonardo : the true story of the scientific and technological Renaissance /
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Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham, Switzerland : |
| Publication Dates: | [2019] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xxix, 351 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9783319904481 (hardcover) : 3319904485 (hardcover) |
| Index Number: | T40 |
| CLC: | K835.466.1 |
| Call Number: | K835.466.1/I584 |
| Contents: | Leonardo and the "others" : engineers and inventors of the early Italian Renaissance -- Cupolas and machines -- A Codex Atlanticun : a book thief, jokes, and fake bicycles -- Those magnificent men in their flying machines -- Flotation, walking on water, and diving under the sea -- Paddle boats, submarines, and other sea vessels -- Wind chariots and "automobiles" -- Perpetuum mobile -- Homo ad circulum -- A friend, an enigmatic portrait, and two duchesses -- The divine proportion -- The geometry of shapes and unfashionable headgear -- The measure of time -- Mission impossible squaring the cir |