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Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions : You Can Build Yourself.
Title:
Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions : You Can Build Yourself.
Author:
Anderson, Maxine.
ISBN:
9781936749157
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (179 pages)
Series:
Build It Yourself
Contents:
Title -- Copyright -- Endorsements -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- What Was the Renaissance? -- Biography of Leonardo -- Leonardo the Artist and Dreamer -- Perspective and Leonardo's "Perspectograph" -- Masks for a Masque -- "Plastic Glass" and Paint -- Leonardo and Luca Pacioli's "Divine Proportion" -- Leonardo the Jokester -- Monster Shield -- Leonardo's Useful Machines -- The Camera Obscura -- Leonardo's Weather Predictions -- Leonardo's Hydrometer -- Leonardo's Monkey Wrench -- Leonardo and Water -- Walk-on-Water Shoes -- Leonardo's Webbed Gloves -- Leonardo in Flight -- Leonardo's Ornithopter -- Leonardo's Helicopter -- Leonardo's Parachute -- Leonardo's Anemometer -- Leonardo's War Inventions -- Leonardo's Safety Bridge -- Leonardo's Trebuchet -- Leonardo's Tank -- Image Credits -- Glossary -- Bibliography/Resources -- Index.
Abstract:
Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions You Can Build Yourself introduces readers to the life, world, and incredible mind of Leonardo da Vinci through hands-on building projects that explore his invention ideas. Most of Leonardo's inventions were never made in his lifetime—they remained sketches in his famous notebooks. Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions You Can Build Yourself shows you how to bring these ideas to life using common household supplies. Detailed step-by-step instructions, diagrams, and templates for creating each project combine with historical facts and anecdotes, biographies and trivia about the real-life models for each project. Together they give kids a first-hand look into the amazing mind of one the world's greatest inventors.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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