Spent a wonderful afternoon at the Lightbox visiting the Leonardo da Vinci exhibition. The main displays were scale models of some of his major 'firsts', such as his tank, his machine gun, his diving suit and of course his flying machine. I'd seen many of them before in the excellent TV series a while back when they attempted to make full scale versions and actually test them. Most of them worked perfectly, perhaps most surprisingly even the diving suit and the glider. Well, I'm not sure if the glider was perfect, but still, it wasn't bad. Most impressively though, upstairs in the life and times portion they actually have one of his original notebooks. Wow. Annoyingly you can only see two pages of it, which is just mean.
The most incredible thing for me, is to see just how damn clever the man was. It's truly humbling. I can't help wondering what he could have achieved if he had today's knowledge to build on, instead of having to figure everything out from first principles for himself.
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