
Da Vinci: Il Grande Apripista // The Great Trailblazer
Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson
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Leonardo's Flight
Leonardo is widely described as a charming conversationalist and lover of nature. He was renowned for being sweet and gentle to both people and to animals. For two decades, leonardo filled note books with more than 500 drawings and 35 thousand words on birds flight and machines that might enable humans to conquer the heavens. A bird is a machine like a man is construct by god to fly, and has incorporated a mechanical principle. So the leonardo investigates gets into the human body to understand the mechanism of the universe to which a flying birds belong. In otherwords, we are all related. I mean, is like there are strings that keep us together. Everything is organically represented.
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