The Da Vinci Code

While in Florence we came across a Leonardo Da Vinci museum explaining what his inventions were used for and replicas (life size and interactive) of some of his inventions and paintings. Some of his inventions were amazing. He invented things like armed tanks, flying machines and even a machine gun.




The cork screw design for one of Leonardo's flying machines.
We saw the Vitruvian Man. Since always associating this with Da Vinci but never knowing what it meant we were quite interested to find that it was a diagram about the proportions of the human body. The legs and arms are in two different places because there is a square and a circle surrounding the man and his limbs are touching them. It had some of the proportions that Leonardo found: the head is 1/8 of the height, the arm is 1/4 of the height, the ear is 1/8 of the face and other measurements too.




Over all it was a really good museum but there are probably bigger and better museums in Italy (you just have to find them) but if you just want a taster of Da Vinci there are plenty of small museums in Florence.




Jake

Location:Florence