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Genre/Form: | Literature Juvenile works Juvenile literature |
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Named Person: | Leonardo, da Vinci; Leonardo, da Vinci; Leonardo, da Vinci |
Material Type: | Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Maxine Anderson |
ISBN: | 0974934429 9780974934426 |
OCLC Number: | 62714803 |
Description: | 122 pages : color illustrations ; 23 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. |
Abstract:
Hands on activities enhance this introduction to the inventions of Leonardo da Vinci.
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