Art & Genius
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This book contains everything you need to build a model of his flying machine: 20 detachable durable cardboard assembly sheets with detailed instructions and text full of explanations and interesting facts. The book is accompanied by splendid illustrations and notes, sketches and original drawings by the genius of the Renaissance. The model is very easy to assemble and its movable wings work perfectly: once unfolded, they have a span of 60 centimetres!
Let yourself be transported into the fascinating world of Leonardo da Vinci's robots through pop-up reconstructions, annotations, sketches and drawings by the artist. Discover some of his futuristic mechanical wonders: the motorised chariot, the mechanical drum, the knight automaton and the flying robots. Their inestimable value emerges in all its significance thanks to the master's splendid engineering creations, original illustrations and rigorous accompanying texts.