Science Museum trumpets Da Vinci expo London's Science Museum is trumpeting its forthcoming exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius, which opens its doors on 10 February next year. A view of the da Vinci exhibition Right now and for £10 (£7 concessions), you can grab a ticket for the "visually stunning" extravaganza which "highlights the immense …
Amongst the exhibits on display you will find the following:
A machine capable of travelling submersed in a marine environment, the "Going-Under-The-Water-Safely Device"
A device invented to encrypt and decrypt messages, the "Engine for the Neutralizing of Information by the Generation of Miasmic Alphabets"
A machine to make coffee really quickly "The-Very-Fast-Coffee-Machine"
A device to propel a small projectile accurately and quickly, "The Gonne".
Perhaps also best known for the Mona Ogg. Some say that the teeth from this painting would follow the viewer around the room and all the way to the street outside. Another description, although unclear whether it's about Mona Ogg or another piece, is that it would follow the viewer home and do the washing-up.
Let's not forget a chain, sprocket, pedal drive bicycle, worm gear drive, clutch drive. Seems to have had a power to weight ratio hangup on the flying machine, which is interesting in trying to suss how people thought differently back then, what changed in methods of metal data handling that allowed perspective rendering, the beginnings of scientific method and the seeds of the Industrial Revolution. When the robots take over, we know who they will worship, lol!
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"They're still last names though. Not sure about Beeblebrox."
Beeblebrox is bit of a special case though, due to the accident with a contraceptive and a time machine which caused him to inherit his whole name from his direct descendant Zaphod Beeblebrox the Fourth. Who is actually his late great-grandfather, who is also very disappointed in young Zaphod...
Of course it is a name: just ask AB de Villiers or Harry Windsor.
Surnames are commonly place names (see above), family/clan names (O'Neill, McDonald, Eriksson etc), or trade names (Baker, Smith, Tanner etc).
Mine? I'm from the Dorset Buddens not the German Buddens, so mine means "bog" or "marsh".
Come by National Express (unless you live in the North of Scotland), Sleep on the coach.
Food & Drink can be reasonable (think Wetherspoons), not dining at 'The Ritz'.
Or if you have to stay overnight there are places just outside central london that are far cheaper than inside the Circle Line.
You can do it on a fairly tight budget.
My guess is that you don't really want to come anyway....
Oh right, sleep on the coach. Find you can't walk after 11 hours of knee torture. How much is the stretcher team for the museum tour?
Why can't exhibitions like this tour the country!? Go Green, take one exhibition to the people, rather than thousands of people to the exhibition! Simples?
Admittedly the bloke could draw and paint, and was a fair hand with the chisel.
But seriously, none of his "genius" devices could ever have worked. Screw-driven flying machines that would look good towed around in a carnival but would not budge upward so much as an inch under power. Hand-cranked tanks that were harder to move than if stripped of the gears and such and just pushed around from the inside. Gliders that wouldn't.
I watched a show from the UK where they built his "terror weapon" - an oversized catapult that anyone should have been able to see would never work. The arm was so massive it was less powerful than the smaller "Deluxe Castle Smashing Engyne" on account of all the energy being used just to swing the arm. The effective payload could only be measured using imaginary numbers.
Was it built with renaissance era materials, or did we cheat a bit?
Actually, I looked it up and it's both. Nicholls rid himself of the deathtrap at 2000 feet and landed using a conventional modern 'chute.
Although the account states he floated "safely down" to that altitude, he could have just free-fallen down as safely. Leonardo stated that the user would suffer no injury, but seemed oblivious of the danger posed once the parachutist was grounded but the flying tent was still coming down on top of him, and the actual test suggests that the downward progress was rather too rapid for comfort.
If anyone actually lands with one of these I'll give you and Len the win.
Convicted of heresy, pantheism and promoting heliocentric conspiracies, Bruno was 'slow roasted over a small fire' on Feb 17, 1600. To commemorate the event, the Vatican released this statement on Feb 17, 2000....
"Bruno's death was a sad episode, but the Inquisitors had the desire to serve truth and to promote the common good and doing the utmost to save his life"
~ Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Dean of the College of Cardinals
Galileo was sentenced to house arrest for the last 30 years of life and his daughter ordered to a nunnery, from which he received only a few letters. Four hundred years of Inquisition is still in denial over science and is forcing false Carbon climate forcing fraud.
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