“Remember that your bird should have no other model than the bat, because its membranes serve as an armour or rather as a means of building together the pieces of its armour, that is the framework of the wings.”

— Leonardo Da Vinci

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XVII Flight

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Italian Renaissance polymath 1452–1519

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