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What Leonardo had in mind, apparently, was to produce a handbook on the operating principles of machinery, and not - as an earlier guild mechanic might have done it - simply a compendium of useful gadgets. This, as Art Historian Ludwig Heydenreich argues, was a turning point in the history of engineering itself. If Leonardo's designs had been made public instead of resting in his notebooks, they would certainly have transformed the extremely crude face of Renaissance mechanics, bringing it to the pitch of sophistication the Chinese had reached four centuries earlier. That did not happen...
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