Da Vinci Demos
The tank was for the Renaissance warlord princes that were his patrons. The flying apparatus was pure personal obsession. Human flight was the ultimate object of all his technological efforts and achievements.
In both areas, Leonardo was about 400 years ahead of his time. Tanks were first developed and utilized in World War I, about the same time as human flight was accomplished. Both modern developments had the advantage of an internal combustion power source. Leonardo’s bat-wing flight apparatus was powered by the muscle energy of a single human, which was part of why it couldn’t work. The military tank was powered by four men, one turning each of the tank’s four wheels by means of gearing combinations that would have multiplied their muscle power. It looks like this might have worked, at least on reasonably smooth terrain.
The models on display are recent constructions based on designs and descriptions in Leonardo’s copious notebooks, about 30,000 pages of which exist in libraries and archives around the world.
The exhibit is about Leonardo’s remarkable machines, but at a deeper level about his nonpareil genius. His genius—manifest in the imaginativeness and inventiveness of the machines—seems best explained in terms of the commonalities he saw—the depth of his vision and understanding of commonalities—among all physical and spiritual reality.
The commonality first of all of the elements in a literal sense—earth, air, fire, and water, as Renaissance science denominated and numerated them—but then also in an extended sense of elements as components—including, notably, the component man—of the universe and its governing physics and mathematical laws.
The inspiration for the machines came from his innovational studies of the workings of nature (as also illustrated and described in the notebooks).
He recognized the commonality of the air and the water as media. The air moves like a river, he said. So that the mechanisms of birds (or bats) were like the mechanisms of fish.
And recognized the element of fire as essentially a machine that converted one form of matter (or energy) into another.
Machines are basically energy conversion mechanisms. Many of the machines on display were apparatus for converting linear energy into rotary, and vice versa.
But the ultimate commonality was that between man and the universe, in terms of symmetry and proportion, and physics and math. As illustrated in his so-called Vitruvian Man drawing of a human figure precisely inscribed in a circle and a square. Man as a combination and synthesis of the material (the square, for the four elements) and spiritual (the circle, for infinity) aspects of the Renaissance universe. The idea of the universe as infinite was new in the Renaissance.
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Florence And The Birth Of The Modern Gelato | Tasty Culinary Tours
The good season is getting closer. Time for sun, cold drinks, light clothes and, of course, gelati! Any tourist wondering through the Florentine beauties will soon discover that the Tuscan summer can be hot, really hot. This is how he will probably start looking -pretty desperately- for something refreshing, and this is how he’ll reach the closest gelateria. If he is staying in an apartment, he will buy the biggest gelato cup available and will run to chuck it straight into the freezer. You wouldn’t want to run out of gelato on a hot, Florentine summer night, would you?
Whatever his tastes, any tourist who is really interested in discovering the real Florentine traditions will choose the famous ‘buontalenti’. This way, he will not only be refreshed, but he will also enjoy one of the tastiest inventions of the Florentine renaissance. As surprising as this may sound, the history of Florence and of gelato are strictly connected to one another. We are not so patriotic to say that gelato is entirely a Florentine invention. We are well aware that the Chinese, centuries before us, had already discovered how to keep and make ice, and that even more ancient populations, such as the Romans and the Greeks, used ice and snow to make fresh fruit squeez. These recipes became more complex over the centuries. The Greeks and the Persians used to make refreshing drinks based on honey, fruit and lemon. These recipes disappeared after the fall of the Roman Empire and appeared again in Europe thanks to the Arabs who had preserved them. This is how gelato (or better sorbetto, from the Arabic word sherbet, meaning sweet snow) arrived in Sicily and spread across Europe.
This is where the Florentines come into play. Thanks to their contribution, gelato reached its largest diffusion in the XVI century. A Florentine named Ruggeri was probably the first Italian gelataio to become an international star. This is how the story went. The Medici, the lords of Florence, decided to organise a competition amongst the Tuscan cooks to award the most talented one. They would award the cook who would create the most original dish. Ruggeri, a poultry merchant whose ‘hobby’ was cooking, won the competition with an ice cream-based dessert that drove the Florentine court literally crazy. The poultry merchant became so popular that Caterina de’ Medici, who was about to get married, wanted him at her wedding banquet.
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