Leonardo Da Vinci's Lion

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Blogged by James Preece on 17th August 2009

This is cool. When our daughter Leona was born we named her Leona after Leo XIII who I had been reading a lot of at the time and thought was a good chap to be named after, but then we realised that Leona could also be after Leonardo Da Vinci and we said at the time that it was good because then she had a bit of science and a bit of religion.

Turns out Leonardo Da Vinci designed a cool mechanical lion to impress the King of France. By all accounts Da Vinci's lion was ahead of it's time using various mechanical trickery that didn't come in to common use until the industrial revolution. We are used to such things, but to people in the sixteenth century it must have been amazing.

Anyways, some Italian guys have studied the old sketches and made Da Vinci's Lion. It is very cool.

Da Vinci's Mechanical Lion

You can see a video of the lion in action here.

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