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Recreating the past with Da Vinci’s inventions

April 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Bizarre news, Weird and wonderful

Just spotted this lovely story on the BBC News website: a Swiss amateur parachutist has made a successful descent using a replica of a parachute designed more than 500 years ago by Leonardo da Vinci. And there’s a video of the jump too so you can see the design - quite different from a modern [...]

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