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Contents:
Chapter I - Before Leonardo
Chapter II - History of the Codex
Chapter III - Binding and numbering
Chapter IV - The Facsimile
Chapter V - Understanding the Codex
Chapter VI - The flying machine: from the clues to the reconstruction
Chapter VII - The kite and the flight of birds
Chapter VIII - The sanguine drawings
Chapter IX - After Leonardo

 


The book of the Codex of Flight
From the study of bird flight to the flying machine

a book of 448 pages
Price: Euro 39,90
Availability: September 2009
ISBN: 978-88-6048-011-8
Language: Italian/English

Where: all major bookstores (Italy) or
buy the book on-line (via secure website )

Compiled in 1505, the Codex on Flight by Leonardo da Vinci presents the most important study on flight completed before the 19th century. It features both theoretical and experimental analyses derived from observing birds in flight.
But there’s much more. All the drawings and texts are aimed at accomplishing the great dream: to build a machine for human flight. Not only does the Codex explain how to make it, but also how to fly it.
For the first time ever, this book describes a flying machine designed by Leonardo that has never been revealed before: the “Great Kite”. The contents are narrated with 3D images and explanations of all texts.
This book, which is arguably the definitive source for understanding the Codex on Flight, also contains: a complete facsimile at the highest-quality resolution ever published; semi-diplomatic and critical transcriptions of all the texts; and the history of flight before and after Leonardo.

"Edoardo Zanon followed Leonardo step-by-step as he develops this new concept in his codex on flight. He collected, read and interpreted every possible clue, be it graphic or descriptive, and thus arrived at an extraordinary virtual vision of the machine with which Leonardo imagined he could take flight from the “dosso del suo magno cecero”, i.e. from the peak of Mount Ceceri in Fiesole, above Florence, according to the world-famous, prophetic vision that he assigned to the last page of his Codex".

From the preface by Carlo Pedretti
Director of the Armand Hammer Center for Leonardo Studies.
Chapter IV - The Facsimile Chapter V - Understanding the Codex
   

Chapter VI - The flying machine: from the clues to the reconstruction

Chapter VII - The kite and the flight of birds
 
Errata corrige della prima edizione
> a pagina 142 le indicazioni testuali delle frecce sul manoscritto sono da correggere come segue (dall'alto al basso e da sinistra e destra): i.01, t.03, t.04, t.01. t.02, i.02.
> a pagina 150 l'indicazione della freccia t.03 è in realtà t.02.
> a pagina 206 le indicazioni testuali delle frecce sono da correggere come segue: t.01 Quando l'uccello, t.02 E se esso uccello, t.03 Come la magnitudine.
> a pagina 248 l'indicazione della freccia "t.04 Quando l'uccello" in basso a sinistra è errata e da non considerarsi.
> i blocchi di testo della trascrizione diplomatica delle pagine 304 e 305 sono da numerarsi come segue: t.01> La palma della mano (...), t.02> Il tornare della mano (...), t.03> Il corso della punta (...), t.04> Senpre nello alzare (...). 		 
   
 
 

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