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Amazing Leonardo da Vinci inventions you can build yourself
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Amazing Leonardo da Vinci inventions you can build yourself

Author: Maxine Anderson
Publisher: Norwich, Vt. : Nomad Press, ©2006.
Edition/Format: Book : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary: "Introduces readers to the life, world, and incredible mind of Leonardo da Vinci through hands-on building projects that explore his invention ideas." --From publisher's description.
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Named Person: Leonardo, da Vinci; Leonardo, da Vinci
Material Type: Juvenile audience
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Maxine Anderson
ISBN: 0974934429 9780974934426
OCLC Number: 64225471
Description: 122 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents: Introduction: What was the renaissance? -- Biography of Leonardo -- Leonardo the artist and dreamer: Perspective and Leonardo's "Perspectograh" -- Masks for a masque -- "Plastic glass" and paint -- Leonardo and Luca Pacioli's "Divine proportion" -- Leonardo the jokester -- Monster shield -- Leonardo's useful machines: 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.
Responsibility: Maxine Anderson.

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"Introduces readers to the life, world, and incredible mind of Leonardo da Vinci through hands-on building projects that explore his invention ideas." --From publisher's description.

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