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Man with Wings ~ The Story of Leonardo da Vinci
by: Joseph Cottler

Read by: Robert Mansell -- Time: 7 hours 22 minutes

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A biography of the Aeronautical Engineer, and artistically talented Anatomist, Leonardo da Vinci.

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[Adult (non-fiction) - biography] Originally published 1945.

Edited by: Brett Nolan
Cover by: Kristen Tuttle
Music by: Brett Nolan

Today most people remember Leonardo for his few surviving anatomically correct works of art. They forget that Leonardo spent most of his life experimenting and designing automated machines. He constantly observed the mechanics of nature. He dissected human bodies, carefully recording the workings of muscles and organs. He studied optics, sound and light, gravity, heliocentric celestial mechanics, physical geology, fluid dynamics, and especially the flight of birds. Leonardo believed that machines could be built, using levers, gears, and pulleys, that could reproduce the efforts of men, birds, and fish; and be used to create huge civil engineering projects. Some of his unique creations, designed years before the birth of their famous so-called "inventors", included pre-fabricated housing, practical indoor plumbing, armored cars, machine guns, armor clad ships, submarines, lenses, mechanical music machines, robots, transmission gears, roller bearings, brakes, streamlining, aeroplane propellers, parachutes, and gliders.

CONTENTS:

1. Man with a Notebook
2. The Shop
3. How Leonardo learned his Trade
4. Story of a Picture
5. A Letter
6. It can be made
7. Madonna of the Rocks
8. The Girl with the Ermine
9. Witches and Dreams
10. Ludovico's Answer
11. Secret Nights
12. New World
13. Pavia
14. A Boy in Pavia
15. Man on a Horse
16. The Betrayal
17. The Last Supper
18. The Quest
19. Noses and Other Plain Matters
20. Flight
21. Saints and Sinners
22. In the Service of Cesare Borgia
23. The River
24. War and the Lady
25. Man with Wings
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About the author:

Joseph Cottler was a mid-20th century British author, who specialized in writing biographies of scientists and inventors. Some of his books include "Heroes of Civilization", "More Heroes of Civilization", "Heroes of Science", "Alfred Wallace ~ Explorer-Naturalist", "Marconi", and "Map Makers".

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ISBN 978-1-937880-30-9

Audience = Adult 16+
Non-Fiction Subject = Biography
BIC = BGT (Biography: science, technology and engineering)
DDC = 920 (History, geography, and biography / Biography, genealogy, insignia)
BISAC = BIO015000 (BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology)

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