Leonardo da Vinci Quote

A bird is an instrument working according to a mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce, with all its movements.


'Flying Machine', from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, trans. E. MacCurdy (1938), Vol. 1


A bird is an instrument working according to a mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce, with all its...

A bird is an instrument working according to a mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce, with all its...

A bird is an instrument working according to a mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce, with all its...

A bird is an instrument working according to a mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce, with all its...