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Saturday, August 28, 2010

QUESTION 323

Okay.
X shows an early architect proposing his plans.
Y, we all know.                                                                                                Y

X

Anyway,                                                    
Id them both.
What connects X and Y? Explain a little, won't you?

7 comments:

  1. archytas

    da vinci


    connection is early attempts at flight

    da vinci invented a mchine which he believed would fly, archytas invented a mechanical bird CALLED THE PIGEON which, it is believed, flew 200 m

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  2. X is solari and Y is leonardo da vinci.. solari deisgned the santa maria church where leonardo painted the last supper

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  3. X is Vitruvius, depicting De Architectura to Augustus
    Y is Leonardo da Vinci
    One of da Vinci's most famous drawings, The Vitruvian Man, which is accompanied by Vitruvius' notes.

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  4. Vitruvius, 1st engineer


    the Vitruvian man

    vinci drw the virtruvaian man based on the works of vitrivius, specifically geometry

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  5. the vitruvian man is the connect, left architect is vitruvus, who wrote about the ideal human proportions or something, and da vinci drew it..

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  6. A depiction of Vitruvius (right) presenting De Architectura to the Emperor Augustus.
    Lionardo da vinci
    The VitruVian Man

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  7. Got it! X is vitruvius nd Y is leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo created the illustration of the vitruvian man from vitruvius' writings.

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