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LEONARDO DA VINCI (VINCI 1452-AMBOISE 1519)

The anatomy of a bird's wing

c.1512-13

RCIN 912656

Leonardo had serious ambitions of constructing a flying machine, but he had little understanding of aerodynamic lift, and assumed that a bird is kept aloft by upwards air currents or by flapping its wings. He probably intended these dissection studies of a bird’s right wing to inform the designs of his flying machine.

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