Artist’s fascination with engineering and the natural world explored through mechanical drawings and models of inventions from flying machines to loomsSketched across the pages of his notebooks,Leonardo da Vinci drew the machines of the future. He pencilled flying airships and helicopters hundreds of years before aviation became a reality and envisioned giant cannons and armoured tanks well ahead of their use in contemporary warfare.
It is these mechanical drawings that are to form the foundation of a major contemporary exhibition at the Science Museum, celebrating the scientific genius of the Renaissance polymath. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com