Leonardo da Vinci

“Leonardo da Vinci was like a man who awoke too early in the darkness, while the

others were all still asleep" Sigmund Freud

Working from Leonardo’s codices*** , Italian artisans have faithfully created interactive and life-size machine inventions. These works include the first concepts of a car, bicycle,

helicopter, glider, parachute, scuba, submarine, military tank and ideal city to name a few.

*** The Codex Leicester (also briefly known as Codex Hammer) is a collection of largely scientific writings by Leonardo da Vinci. The codex is named after Thomas Coke, later created Earl of Leicester, who purchased it in 1719. Of Leonardo's 30 scientific journals, the Codex may be the most

famous of all. The manuscript holds the record for the sale price of any book, when it was sold to Bill Gates at Christie's auction house on 11 November 1994 in New

York for $US30,802,500.( text and photo : Wikipedia )

***A codex is a bound book made up of separate pages. It developed in late Roman times and replaced the scroll as the preferred way of keeping texts

***The Madrid Codices I–II are two manuscripts by Leonardo da Vinci which are of great importance as they contain about 15% of Leonardo's notes referenced today, but are also important for the quality and relevance of the

works they contain, which are among the major engineering treatises of their time. Topics discussed include mechanics,

statics, geometry and construction of fortifications. ( text and photo : Wikipedia )

*** The Codex Atlanticus (Atlantic Codex) is a twelve-volume, bound set of drawings and writings by Leonardo da

VinciThe folios in the Codex Atlanticus deal with various subjects

ranging from mechanics to hydraulics, from studies and sketches for paintings to mathematics and astronomy, from philosophical meditations to fables, all the way to curious

inventions such as parachutes, war machineries and hydraulic pumps.

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***Codex Arundel, (British Library, Arundel, 263) is a bound collection of pages of notes written by

Leonardo da Vinci and dating mostly from between 1480 and 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, who acquired it in Spain in the 1630s. It forms part of the British Library Arundel

Manuscripts.

( text and photo : Wikipedia )

Parachute was sketched by Leonardo da Vinci in his Codex Atlanticus in about 1485.

Leonardo's parachute design consists of sealed linen cloth held open by a pyramid of wooden

poles, about seven metres long

The ideal city

lifebuoy

hand flippers

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Leonardo da Vinci, in the Codex Atlanticus manuscripts, sketched

designs for floats to allow a man to walk on water

Photos : £iviuMusic :Vivaldi Concerto for Mandolin in D( Lute RV 93 ) 3. Movement

March 20, 2014

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Where ?

Maxidome

Pavilion, in the

Israel Trade Fairs

Center in Tel Aviv

When ?

Opened until the

end of April, Tel

Aviv.