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'La Musica Celata' (The Hidden Music) Is it the real 'Da Vinci Code?'

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2008-01-02 16:31:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...Vinci encoded music in his iconic painting, "The Last Supper Ariel David's November 9, 2007 Associated Press story explored the claim, and follows Leonardo Painting Has Coded 'Soundtrack It's a new Da Vinci code, but this time it could be for real. An Italian musician and computer technician claims to have uncovered musical notes encoded in...
 
Tags: musical riddles, musical, musical notes, vinci, giovanni maria pala, vinci code, pala, musical staff, musical composition
 
 
 
 
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Vietti-Teppa lands safely with a parachute based on sketches made by Leonardo da Vinci in 1485!

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2008-04-29 06:53:35 by HASH0x8bf78cc in Fareastgizmos.com
...Vinci in 1485. Vietti-Teppa had been wearing a modern reserve parachute in case da Vinci's design - made out of four triangles of fabric and with a pointed top - had failed to open. Vietti-Teppa is the first person to have made it safely to the ground with the da Vinci model. In 2000, Briton Adrian Nicholas tried it but had to use a back-up...
 
Tags: parachute based, parachute, vinci, design parachute consists, vietti-teppa, back-up parachute, vinci model, modern reserve parachute, modern fabric
 
 
 
 
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600-Year-Old da Vinci Parachute Design Works Like a Dream

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2008-04-29 13:35:40 by C. S. Magor in The Uber-Review
...Vinci designed parachute, that the Italian artist conceived somewhere around 1485. It is not the first attempt to skydive using the design, there was an unsuccessful attempt in 2000. The parachute is made up of four equilateral triangles of fabric, sewn together to form a pyramid shape. At the base of the pyramid there is a square of mosquito...
 
Tags: vinci, design, parachute, olivier vietti-teppa, unsuccessful attempt, attempt, goldfish memory myth, pyramid, vietti-teppa
 
 
 
 
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Cryptex phone concept for Da Vinci Code fans

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2008-07-21 08:59:52 by dusanb in IntoMobile
...Vinci Code fans out there. The so called Cryptex phone is the work of Marc Schömann and seems inspired by Dan Brown's popular novel Here's what Marc had to say about it You turn the dial of every element to the desired cipher. If you entered the number you turn the first segment "to phone" (green LED). If you want to hang up the call you...
 
Tags: phone, cryptex phone, concept phone, cryptex phone concept, vinci code fans, vinci code, slider concept phone, nokia n80, south africa
 
 
 
 
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Amateur historian claims da Vinci swiped helicopter designs from the Chinese

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2008-07-29 15:49:46 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
...Vinci's drawings of flying machines were cribbed from two-dimensional drawings presented to Pope Eugenius IV by a Chinese ambassador. To support his argument, Menzies publishes drawings of siege weapons, mills and pumps from a 1313 Chinese agricultural treatise, the Nung Shu, and from other pre-1430 Chinese books, next to apparently similar...
 
Tags: chinese, pre-1430 chinese books, menzies, menzies pursues, drawings, gavin menzies, two-dimensional drawings, chinese ambassador, vinci
 
 
 
 
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Da Vinci sketch inspires worldâs smallest one-man helicopter

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2008-05-21 12:42:16 by Asmita in Born Rich
...Vinci in 1493 which was discovered in the 19th century. The creator (or the recreator) of the GEN H-4 is a 75-year old Japanese gent named Gennai Yanagisawa, and though we certainly donât know the approximation of his design to the Da Vinci sketch, we can certainly inform you that Mr. Yanagisawaâs machine is officially entered in the...
 
Tags: sketch, vinci sketch, helicopter, one-man helicopter, vinci, yanagisawas machine, machine, incredible machine, h-4
 
 
 
 
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Da Vinci sketch inspires worldâs smallest one-man helicopter

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2008-05-21 12:42:16 by Asmita in Born Rich
...Vinci in 1493 which was discovered in the 19th century. The creator (or the recreator) of the GEN H-4 is a 75-year old Japanese gent named Gennai Yanagisawa, and though we certainly donât know the approximation of his design to the Da Vinci sketch, we can certainly inform you that Mr. Yanagisawaâs machine is officially entered in the...
 
Tags: sketch, vinci sketch, helicopter, one-man helicopter, vinci, yanagisawas machine, machine, incredible machine, h-4
 
 
 
 
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Da Vinci sketch inspires worldâs smallest one-man helicopter

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2008-05-21 12:42:16 by Asmita in Born Rich
...Vinci in 1493 which was discovered in the 19th century. The creator (or the recreator) of the GEN H-4 is a 75-year old Japanese gent named Gennai Yanagisawa, and though we certainly donât know the approximation of his design to the Da Vinci sketch, we can certainly inform you that Mr. Yanagisawaâs machine is officially entered in the...
 
Tags: sketch, vinci sketch, helicopter, one-man helicopter, vinci, yanagisawas machine, machine, incredible machine, h-4
 
 
 
 
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Da Vinci sketch inspires worldâs smallest one-man helicopter

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2008-05-21 12:42:16 by Asmita in Born Rich
...Vinci in 1493 which was discovered in the 19th century. The creator (or the recreator) of the GEN H-4 is a 75-year old Japanese gent named Gennai Yanagisawa, and though we certainly donât know the approximation of his design to the Da Vinci sketch, we can certainly inform you that Mr. Yanagisawaâs machine is officially entered in the...
 
Tags: sketch, vinci sketch, helicopter, one-man helicopter, vinci, yanagisawas machine, machine, incredible machine, h-4