TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rosheim,Mark Elling
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Leonardo’s Lost Robots
SN  - 9783540284970
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Berlin, Heidelberg
PB  - Springer Berlin Heidelberg
KW  - Engineering
KW  - Science
KW  - History
KW  - Physics
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Engineering design
KW  - Arts
KW  - Automation and Robotics
KW  - History of Science
KW  - Popular Science in Mathematics/Computer Science/Natural Science/Technology
KW  - Engineering Design
KW  - History of Physics
N1  - Beginnings -- Leonardo’s Programmable Automaton and Lion -- Leonardo’s Knight -- Leonardo’s Bell Ringer -- Epilogue Leonardo’s Legacy and Impact on Modern Technology
N2  - Leonardo's Lost Robots reinterprets Leonardo da Vinci's mechanical design work, revealing a new level of sophistication not recognized by art historians or engineers. By identifying his major technological projects, the book reinterprets Leonardo's legacy of notes, showing that apparently unconnected fragments from dispersed manuscripts actually comprise cohesive designs for functioning automata. Using the rough sketches scattered throughout almost all of Leonardo's notebooks, the author has reconstructed Leonardo's programmable cart, which was the platform for other automata: a Robot Lion, a Robot Knight, and a hydraulically powered automaton for striking a bell. Through a readable, lively narrative, Mark Rosheim explains how he reconstructed da Vinci's designs. In a foreword the world-renowned Leonardo scholar Carlo Pedretti interprets the significance of these reconstructions for our understanding of Leonardo's oeuvre
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-28497-4
ER  -