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Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions You Can Build Yourself

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Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions You Can Build Yourself

Introduction
What Was the Renaissance?
Biography of Leonardo
Leonardo the Artist and Dreamer
Perspective and Leonardo's "Perspectograph"
Masks for a Masque
"Plastic Glass" and Paint
Leonardo and Luca Pacioli's "Divine Proportion"
Leonardo the Jokester
Monster Shield
Leonardo's Useful Machines
The Camera Obscura
Leonardo's Weather Predictions
Leonardo's Hydrometer
Leonardo's Monkey Wrench
Leonardo and Water
Walk-on-Water Shoes
Leonardo's Webbed Gloves
Leonardo in Flight
Leonardo's Ornithopter
Leonardo's Helicopter
Leonardo's Parachute
Leonardo's Anemometer
Leonardo's War Inventions
Leonardo's Safety Bridge
Leonardo's Trebuchet
Leonardo's Tank
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Index