April 25, 2004

Leonardo’s Automobile

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Who would have thought that the Italian tradition of fine automotive engineering would date back so far?

Researchers at the Florence Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza (Institute and Museum of the History of Science, a truly fascinating place) have constructed a self-propelled wagon from notes in Leonardo da Vinci's Atlanticus Codex.

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