
4 0 c m
31cm
actual image size: 23cm x 32cm
Description
Illustration taken from the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), showing a man wearing an inflatable life-jacket. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer and inventor of the Renaisance period. He had a wide knowledge and understanding far beyond his times of most of the sciences, including biology, anatomy, physiology, hydrodynamics, mechanics and aeronautics. His notebooks, written in mirror writing, contain original remarks on all of these areas.
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