Leonardo S Lion

Author : Steven R. Southard
Publisher : Gypsy Shadow Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781619500082

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Leonardo's Lion by Steven R. Southard Pdf

In 1515, Leonardo da Vinci built a mechanical lion to entertain King Francis I of France and his guests. Until now, no one knows what happened to this amazing clockwork creation. Over half a century later, when a ten year old boy discovers the lion in a royal storeroom, young Chev doesn’t know he will soon embark on a strange and dangerous mission. His quest will lead him many leagues through a French countryside devastated by religious war in search of Leonardo’s greatest secrets of all, hidden mysteries that could affect the future of all humanity.

Author : Larry McKenzie
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781466959781

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Leonardo the Lopsided Lion by Larry McKenzie Pdf

The story is of a disabled Lion who left his pride to find the secret of life. In an ancient City of Gold he finds the secret of life- his laughter and to live happily ever after.

Author : Carlo Pedretti
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520024206

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Leonardo by Carlo Pedretti Pdf

Artist and scientist, draughtsman and inventor, these were the varied occupations of Leonardo. Carlo Pedretti concentrates on the paintings and drawings and tackles the problem of their complexity by tracing chronologically a number of the themes that run through Leonardo's work.--[book jacket].

Author : Mark Rosheim
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783540284970

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Leonardo ́s Lost Robots by Mark Rosheim Pdf

This book reinterprets Leonardo da Vinci's mechanical design work, revealing a new level of sophistication not recognized by art historians or engineers. 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 reconstructed Leonardo's programmable cart, which was the platform for other automata. Through a readable, lively narrative, the author explains how he reconstructed da Vinci's designs.

Author : Edward McCurdy
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486142401

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The Mind of Leonardo da Vinci by Edward McCurdy Pdf

More than just a biography, this classic offers numerous demonstrations of the master’s achievements not only in sculpture and painting but also in music, engineering, and even experimental aviation. 16 black-and-white illustrations.

Author : Philip Steadman
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781787359154

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Renaissance Fun by Philip Steadman Pdf

Renaissance Fun is about the technology of Renaissance entertainments in stage machinery and theatrical special effects; in gardens and fountains; and in the automata and self-playing musical instruments that were installed in garden grottoes. How did the machines behind these shows work? How exactly were chariots filled with singers let down onto the stage? How were flaming dragons made to fly across the sky? How were seas created on stage? How did mechanical birds imitate real birdsong? What was ‘artificial music’, three centuries before Edison and the phonograph? How could pipe organs be driven and made to play themselves by waterpower alone? And who were the architects, engineers, and craftsmen who created these wonders? All these questions are answered. At the end of the book we visit the lost ‘garden of marvels’ at Pratolino with its many grottoes, automata and water jokes; and we attend the performance of Mercury and Mars in Parma in 1628, with its spectacular stage effects and its music by Claudio Monteverdi – one of the places where opera was born. Renaissance Fun is offered as an entertainment in itself. But behind the show is a more serious scholarly argument, centred on the enormous influence of two ancient writers on these subjects, Vitruvius and Hero. Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture were widely studied by Renaissance theatre designers. Hero of Alexandria wrote the Pneumatics, a collection of designs for surprising and entertaining devices that were the models for sixteenth and seventeenth century automata. A second book by Hero On Automata-Making – much less well known, then and now – describes two miniature theatres that presented plays without human intervention. One of these, it is argued, provided the model for the type of proscenium theatre introduced from the mid-sixteenth century, the generic design which is still built today. As the influence of Vitruvius waned, the influence of Hero grew.

Author : Georgia Clarke
Publisher : Pearson UK
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781292293530

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Level 4: Leonardo Da Vinci by Georgia Clarke Pdf

Author : Leonardo (da Vinci)
Publisher : Collins Publishers San Francisco
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015004121599

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Fantastic Animals by Leonardo (da Vinci) Pdf

Author : Leonardo (da Vinci),Rachel Stern,Alison Manges,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Drawing, Italian
ISBN : 9781588390332

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Leonardo Da Vinci Master Draftsman by Leonardo (da Vinci),Rachel Stern,Alison Manges,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

This handsome book offers a unified and fascinating portrait of Leonardo as draftsman, integrating his roles as artist, scientist, inventor, theorist, and teacher. 250 illustrations.

Author : Kenneth Clark,Martin Kemp
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780141982373

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Leonardo Da Vinci by Kenneth Clark,Martin Kemp Pdf

A personally compelling introduction to Leonardo's genius, a classic monograph of Leonardo's art and his development.

Author : Martin Kemp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199207787

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Leonardo Da Vinci by Martin Kemp Pdf

A masterly account of the genius of Leonardo da Vinci and his vision of the world, generously illustrated throughout, presenting a fully integrated picture of Leonardo's art, science, and thought.

Author : François Quiviger
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789141078

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Leonardo da Vinci by François Quiviger Pdf

This incisive and illuminating biography follows the three themes that shaped the life of Leonardo da Vinci and, through him, forever changed Western art and imagination: nature, art, and self-fashioning. Nature and art helped form Leonardo. He spent his first twelve years in the Tuscan countryside before entering the most reputed artistic workshop of Florence. There he blossomed as one of the most promising painters of his time and promptly applied his skills to explore and question the world through science and invention. Leonardo was also self-fashioned: he received only a basic education and grew up around peasants and artisans. But from the 1480s onwards, he transformed himself into a court artist and became a familiar of kings and rulers. Following the chronology of Leonardo’s extraordinary life, this book examines Leonardo as artist, courtier, and thinker, and explores how these aspects found expression in his paintings, as well as in his work in sculpture, architecture, theater design, urban planning, engineering, anatomy, geology, and cartography. François Quiviger concludes with observations on Leonardo’s relevance today as a model of the multidisciplinary artist who combines imagination, art, and science—the original, and ultimate, Renaissance Man.

Author : Francis C. Moon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402055997

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The Machines of Leonardo Da Vinci and Franz Reuleaux by Francis C. Moon Pdf

This fascinating book will be of as much interest to engineers as to art historians, examining as it does the evolution of machine design methodology from the Renaissance to the Age of Machines in the 19th century. It provides detailed analysis, comparing design concepts of engineers of the 15th century Renaissance and the 19th century age of machines from a workshop tradition to the rational scientific discipline used today.

Author : Giuseppe Roncoroni
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000935196

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Atlas and the Globe by Giuseppe Roncoroni Pdf

This book is an anthology of philosophical essays. Its principle is simple: the moments of our life are original. What we perceive and think does not arise from an elusive and illusive entity called God, Soul or External World. This setting, in line with philosophical and scientific trends, is the starting point for reaching a coherent and innovative solution to the problems of knowledge. In the foreground we encounter the relationship between the mind and the brain, where the terms are composed according to the analogy with music and the musical score, and then the basis of time and the sense of the Big Bang. These are the frame and sketch of the book.

Author : Claire J. Farago
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 0815329350

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Leonardo Da Vinci, Selected Scholarship: Leonardo's projects, c. 1500-1519 by Claire J. Farago Pdf

Also available as the third book in a five volume set (ISBN#0815329334)