Leonardo's Flight

Video prepared for the exhibition, Leonardo da Vinci's Codex on the Flight of Birds, at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, September 13-October 22, 2013. The video describes the content and history of this historically prescient Leonardo da Vinci notebook about flight.
Video Credit: Courtesy of Silvia Rosa Brusin, RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana

[@JMyepes]

Incredible video. Thank you very much! Leonardo was amazing!

[@soupful]

Excellent.

[@julioequinones]

I doubt that he put anything randomly. that list of food seems that it might be more than meets the eye. Paper was too important for a simple list as such, maybe I am wrong but my gut tells me otherwise.

[@nysportsfan2576]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@elcompa23yt79]

Mi maestro de ciancias me mandó a ver este vídeo 😐

[@xde7289]

ami tambien xd

[@mendenzontatisrosario1863]

Es importante entender como los cientificos del pasado hacian formulaciones e hipotesis. Gracias a Leaonardo y sus hipotesis se presento la posibilidad de volar y se hizo mas facil.

[@nathanielvarela5353]

Cringed seeing the handling of the books hahah

[@internet8366]

Que contradictorio. toman en sus manos enguantadas, un libro de anotaciones de Leonardo, y hablan sobre el libro, las posibilidades son altas de que partículas de saliva caigan sobre tan valioso manuscrito. S(-(

[@GmRb79]

but why?? Everything that Leonardo did in Engineering was total trash. His only benefit to mankind might be botanics, art and medicine... everything else was just absurd.

[@luigin649]

are you serious? 3/4 of the stuff he designed got used centruies after him, without his sketches and prototipes we wouldn t have a lot of modern machines, plus whatever he did, he did it for pure "fun" and interest, but thanks to him we built the first idea of a battle tank, the first idea of "shootgun" or machinegun, a quick reloading crossbow, semi-auto rifles, ships, war machines, even some kind or robots made of wood,without mentioning the contribution to the "flight dream" he was also an architect,scientist,botanic, and especially artist, we remember him because he is the example of "a great human being" someone that manages to do almost everything and manages to do it in a pretty good way,he is the symble of the renaissance.

[@noway5096]

You are absurd