Biomimicry: Taking Inspiration from Nature, from Leonardo da Vinci to the Present Day Travel and more – offering readers

and more – offering readers a better understanding of the social context behind the works as well as the history of product design itself

known as Upper Lawn or the Solar Pavilion

Hansjorg Goritz

5 cm Softcover

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Biomimicry: Taking Inspiration from Nature, from Leonardo da Vinci to the Present Day Travel and more – offering readersThis book explores the concept of biomimicry by establishing a dialogue between the work of Leonardo da Vinci and Renaissance engineers on the one hand and contemporary researchers on the other. It shows how living can be a source of inspiration for our technological future and the extent to which the Renaissance understood this. Biomimicry brings together drawings by da Vinci and Albrecht Drer, models of machines based on the artists' drawings,