Leonardo da Vinci’s “Codex on the Flight of Birds” will make - TopicsExpress



          

Leonardo da Vinci’s “Codex on the Flight of Birds” will make its second appearance on American soil at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. The notebook, on loan from the Biblioteca Reale in Turin, Italy, dates back to approximately 1505 and contains da Vinci’s schemes, scribblings and sketches about bird flight and — though he was about 400 years early to the party — the possibility of mechanical aviation.
Posted on: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 12:53:35 +0000

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