Key to legendary mechanical lion found in code for Leonardo Da Vinci's robot

[The Straight Story]

Key to legendary mechanical lion found in code for Leonardo Da Vinci's robot


He can't flip pancakes, fold clothes or walk on the moon.
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One of the sketches on the blueprint that was overlooked (throw out the useless sketches and you're left with the invention, Mr Rizzo says) was of a drum.

Mr Gabrieli eventually linked the drum with the knight's arrms and found the sketch of the mechanism which showed how Da Vinci wanted it built.

That machine beat a perfect tattoo when he wound the handle at the back, but even more surprising was what happened when that drum was placed in the robot's chest.

The cylinder suddenly, magically, became its heart. The rhythm it gave the knight caused all the other parts to work in perfect unison, without a hint of friction.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/da-vicnis-robot/story-e6frfro0-1225869918564

[EmilyKent]

1. The line that leaps out at me:

'The question that remains is, what was in the estimated 55,000 pages of Da Vinci's Codices that were lost?'

The amount of knowledge that's been lost, from a multitude of sources, is heartbreaking.

How many things are we simply re-discovering, or re-inventing?

[oneshooter]

3. The Library of Alexander, burned. n/t

[EmilyKent]

5. There is a book by Fernando Baez

on the thousands of libraries and collections deliberately burned through the centuries.

http://www.amazon.ca/Universal-History-Destruction-Books-Ancient/dp/1934633240/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274743082&sr=1-2

It's mind-blowing.

[ljm2002]

2. Very cool!

Years ago there was an exhibit of some of DaVinci's Codex writings and drawings at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. I took my children there with me just so we could all be in the same room with, and lay eyes on, pages that were actually written by DaVinci. He was channeling something, it is hard to believe he was merely human.

One of the amazing things was that the writing was backwards -- mirror image. Apparently a lot of his engineering writing was done like that.

Thanks for posting.

[FedUpWithIt All]

4. I have no idea why...the stress of the week maybe...this made me tear up.

It was the heart that was missing. :cry:

[aquart]

6. Lotta stress this week.

But now the heart is beating in its rightful place. One good thing amid disasters.

[FedUpWithIt All]

11. It is indeed...

:hug:

[Sal Minella]

7. (hug) n/t

[FedUpWithIt All]

12. ...

:hug:

Thank you.

[eShirl]

8. like the Tin Woodman

[FedUpWithIt All]

13. ...

:hug:

[awoke_in_2003]

9. a man

(way) ahead of his time

[Quantess]

10. This is an interesting bit of distraction from the oil disaster.

Thanks for posting it.

[Scurrilous]

14. K & R

:thumbsup: