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LEONARDO DA VINCI Ink and chalk This is a pen and ink drawing with touches Cloudburst of Material Possessions
of black chalk. Each item that has crashed from heaven is
Leonardo devised many artifacts of our modern drawn in such a way that we can feel Leonardo's nib 1510-12
lives, envisioning machines centuries before their picking it up in the speed of a doodle. There is a little 45/8x 43/8 in ( 1 1 7 x 1 1 1 mm)
making (helicopters and bicycles, for example). He magic in recognizing many items from our homes - LEONARDO DA VINCI
bequeathed his drawings to a friend, and they something like a rake, a hook, a bell, and a wheel, together
passed through private hands for 400 years before with half the contents of our garage. Above and below are
becoming widely known. It is interesting to speculate examples of his mirror handwriting. He was left-handed
how engineering might have developed if his ideas
had been shared with the world earlier and wrote backwards in Italian from left to right.
