{"id":15722,"date":"2023-09-06T14:41:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T18:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/?p=15722"},"modified":"2023-09-06T14:41:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T18:41:50","slug":"leonardo-da-vinci-and-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/2023\/09\/06\/leonardo-da-vinci-and-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonardo da Vinci and Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Among the many subjects Leonardo studied, the possibility of human mechanical flight held particular fascination.\u00a0 He produced more than 35,000 words and 500 sketches dealing with flying machines, the nature of air, and bird flight.\u00a0 These investigations of flight are scattered throughout the many da Vinci codices and manuscript collections, but he did produce one short codex almost entirely on the subject in 1505-1506, the\u00a0<em>Codice sul volo degli uccelli<\/em>\u00a0(<em>Codex on the Flight of Birds<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leonardo\u2019s interest in flight appears to have stemmed from his extensive work on military technology which he performed in the employ of the Milanese court.\u00a0 He filled many notebooks with countless sketches of weapons, military machines, and fortifications.\u00a0 They included a giant crossbow, a tank, and a submarine, to name just a few.\u00a0 However, as far as it is known, none of these inventions were ever built.\u00a0 Leonardo\u2019s focus on military technology and tactics lead him to the idea of aerial reconnaissance.\u00a0 Once engaged with the notion of a flying machine, it became an obsession.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>____________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Leonardo da Vinci and Flight<\/em>. Homepage. (n.d.). https:\/\/airandspace.si.edu\/stories\/editorial\/leonardo-da-vinci-and-flight<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>____________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Humans have been dreaming of flight for a long time, so it follows that there are many moments of inspiration to investigate flight that designs could be based on. Leonardo Da Vinci is well known for his interest in flight, so somewhere he had a moment of inspiration that could be a design. If not that, many people have been inspired from him, so this could be a good place to look for another example of that spark of inspiration that I want to chase from the Wright Brothers puddle hopper toy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Among the many subjects Leonardo studied, the possibility of human mechanical flight held particular fascination.\u00a0 He produced more than 35,000 words and 500 sketches dealing with flying machines, the nature of air, and bird flight.\u00a0 These investigations of flight are scattered throughout the many da Vinci codices and manuscript collections, but he did produce one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":15723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15724,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15722\/revisions\/15724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}