Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions You Can Build Yourself
by Maxine Anderson Author
Gives a short biography and timeline on da Vinci along with background information and well-explained how-to directions for several projects based on his inventions. Projects fall into five categories: Artist and Dreamer, Useful Machines, Water, Flight, and War Inventions.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0974934429
- Print Status
- In Print
- Projects
- 19
- Pages
- 128
- Suggested Grades
- 3rd - 8th
- Publisher
- Nomad Press
- Copyright
- 2006
Projects
- Intro Introduction
- 1 Perspective and Leonardo's Perspectograph
- 2 Masks for a Masque
- 3 Plastic Glass and Paint
- 4 Leonardo and Luci Pacioli's Divine Proportion
- 5 Leonardo the Jokester
- 6 Monster Shield
- 7 The Camera Obscura
- 8 Leonardo's Weather Predictions
- 9 Leonardo's Hydrometer
- 10 Leonardo's Monkey Wrench
- 11 Walk-on-Water Shoes
- 12 Leonardo's Webbed Gloves
- 13 Leonardo's Ornithopter
- 14 Leonardo's Helicopter
- 15 Leonardo's Parachute
- 16 Leonardo's Anemometer
- 17 Leonardo's Safety Bridge
- 18 Leonardo's Trebuchet
- 19 Leonardo's Tank
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