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Leonardo Ornithopter Visualisation

Leonardo da Vinci spent the last 3 years of his life (1516-1519) at the Château de Clos Luce near the town of Amboise. The château is now a shrine to the great man and the grounds are largely given over to exhibits inspired by his work. A Leonardo drawing of an ornithopter (a man-powered flying machine imitating flapping bird wings) is here translated into stick-and-string reality.

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Uploaded on April 30, 2010
Taken on April 25, 2010