Codex on the Flight of Birds is a relatively short codex from c. 1505 by Leonardo da Vinci. It comprises 18 folios and measures 21 × 15 centimetres. Now...

Century and the beginning of the 16th Century. Drawings of parts and components of this machine can be found in the Codex on the flight of birds, which however...

Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo's works on Universal Leonardo Leonardo's works on Web Gallery of Art The Codex Arundel on the British Library's Digitised Manuscripts...

in the Codex on the Flight of Birds. A conclusion was that all the images, but one, reveal a face that is elongated in the lower two thirds. The image...

Leonardo recorded his earliest memory, now in the Codex Atlanticus. While writing on the flight of birds, he recalled as an infant when a kite came to...

Codex on the Flight of Birds (1502), noting for the first time the distinction between the center of mass and the center of pressure of flying birds....

considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety and cost. The word engineer (Latin ingeniator, the origin of the Ir. in the title of engineer...

The Ostrich Egg Globe is a hollow terrestrial globe made from the conjoined lower halves of two ostrich eggs. The map carved on the globe is an extremely...

can shelter up to a thousand birds. In 2003, Jean Saint-Bris set up an educational and cultural course in the park of the Clos Lucé with several sound...

on the back of one of Leonardo's studies (c. 1517) has also been determined to be a portrait. A self-portrait from Leonardo's Codex on the Flight of Birds...

movement of air around a thrown spear both resisted its motion and propelled it forward. In the 15th century, Leonardo da Vinci published the Codex Leicester...

Leonardo da Vinci's Codex on the Flight of Birds to the library's collection as a gift to the king. Further works by Leonardo held by the library include...

commemorate the event; on the top of Monte Ceceri, instead, another plaque contains Leonardo's famous phrase from the Codex on the Flight of Birds. There are...

were derived primarily from bird droppings (guano), a fact that would be incorporated in critical reviews of the production. The production, plagued by problems...

below. approx. date – Leonardo da Vinci produces his Codex on the Flight of Birds. Portuguese reach the Comoros archipelago. Bermuda is discovered by Spanish...

in the lexicographic field. His work in fact initially focused on the eight thousand words contained in the Codex Trivulzianus, and the result of his...

world trees also appear in the Mexican Borgia Codex. The shooting of the Principal Bird deity is one of the main episodes of the Classic Period Hero Twins...

The harpsichord-viola (in Italian Clavi-viola) is a hybrid musical instrument based on the designs of Leonardo da Vinci on folio 93r of the Codex Atlanticus...

by the Italian Renaissance engineer Francesco di Giorgio Martini. Codex: is the precursor of modern books, having defined the reference format of virtually...

above it. The desire to fly is expressed in the many studies and drawings. His later journals contain a detailed study of the flight of birds and several...

1518. The codex contains a number of treatises on a variety of subjects, including mechanics and geometry. The name of the codex came from the Earl of Arundel...

The Memory Cathedral: A Secret History of Leonardo da Vinci is a 1995 historical fantasy fiction novel by Jack Dann. It follows Leonardo da Vinci constructing...

Leonardo Da Vinci — in English, The Life of Leonardo da Vinci — is a 1971 Italian television miniseries dramatizing the life of the Italian Renaissance genius...

the world. It is thought to be the earliest example of man-made flight. Leonardo da Vinci's 15th-century dream of flight found expression in several rational...

raids bird and reptile nests, and takes live prey if the possibility arises (mostly insects or other small prey [such as small mammals, small birds, amphibians...

not yet considered vulnerable. The bird is mentioned in the Florentine Codex. The lovely cotinga has an adult length of about 7.5 in (19 cm). It has a...

birds are inevitably lost on occasion, though most are found again. The main reason birds can be found again is because, during free flights, birds usually...

Plain. A companion piece entitled The Traction Codex was released in 2011, and was expanded into The Illustrated World of Mortal Engines by Reeve and Jeremy...

featured in the Codex Telleriano-Remensis; dignitaries and emperors are depicted sitting in them. The chair of Maximian in the cathedral of Ravenna is...

attack into flight and induce their enemy to pursue them. Then they would show their faces instead of their backs, like birds cutting through the air, and...