Leonardo's Lost Robots
by Mark Elling Rosheim
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Leonardo's Lost Robots reinterprets Leonardo da Vinci's mechanical design work, revealing a new level of sophistication not recognized by art historians or engineers. By identifying his major technological projects, the book reinterprets Leonardo's legacy of notes, showing that apparently unconnected fragments from dispersed manuscripts actually comprise cohesive designs for functioning automata. Using the rough sketches scattered throughout almost all of Leonardo's notebooks, the author has show more reconstructed Leonardo's programmable cart, which was the platform for other automata: a Robot Lion, a Robot Knight, and a hydraulically powered automaton for striking a bell. Through a readable, lively narrative, Mark Rosheim explains how he reconstructed da Vinci's designs. In a foreword the world-renowned Leonardo scholar Carlo Pedretti interprets the significance of these reconstructions for our understanding of Leonardo's oeuvre. show lessTags
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- Nonfiction, Technology, Art & Design, History, Science & Nature, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
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- 629.8 — Applied science & technology Engineering Transportation Vehicles Automata
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- TJ211 .R668 — Technology Mechanical engineering and machinery Mechanical engineering and machinery Mechanical devices and figures. Automata.
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