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2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Leonardo and the Design of Machines
Author : Plinio Innocenzi
Published in: Proceedings of the 2nd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Image and Imagination
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
Leonardo’s machine designs are an extraordinary testimony to the technologies developed during the Renaissance. Leonardo’s Codices contain a repertoire of machines of all types and for different uses. Many of these projects are shown by Leonardo with extreme attention to details and a sophisticated level of technical representation. Leonardo also analytically dissects the individual mechanical elements to recompose them in the design of complex machines. Leonardo studied the individual elements of a machine and their functions with an analytical and systematic approach. The mechanical parts will then be recomposed for the design of its more complex devices such as automata.