Measuring time

Measuring time
The Museum’s permanent collection includes two new machines: the Clock (from the Madrid Codex I, f. 27v) and the Time Regulator (from the Codex Atlanticus, f. 754r). These extraordinary, fully working reconstructions were created for the Leonardo3 Museum by master craftsman and leading expert in historical mechanics, Alberto Gorla, and his assistant, Angelo Brunoni.

To enrich the presentation, Professor Martin Kemp, Emeritus Professor at the University of Oxford and Scientific Supervisor of the Leonardo3 Museum, will give an exclusive English-language lecture entitled "When TikTok was the big deal: the quest to measure time". The morning will end with a gleaning by Dr Sara Taglialagamba, Director of the Nuova Fondazione Rossana & Carlo Pedretti, entitled "Gears, the Orbe della Luna and a Putto Ringing a Bell. A clock made by Andrea Verrocchio and the young Leonardo".

«We must persist in our promotion of culture. The Leonardo3 Museum continues to grow and generate new knowledge through its studies. Sharing our research with the public is both a duty and a privilege: it helps to keep alive the spirit of curiosity and innovation that Leonardo embodied. In March, we will celebrate thirteen years of activity, and we hope that the Municipality of Milan will recognise the value of a cultural institution that welcomes almost 300,000 visitors a year and will stabilise its presence rather than call it into question. Losing the Leonardo3 Museum and Study Centre would be an irreparable loss for the city», says Massimiliano Lisa, director of Leonardo3.

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