Astrofiammante's Botheration Log

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What I'm reading: 19/12/2008

December 19th, 2008 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

What I’m reading online today – if you like what you see, add me to your Delicious network…

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Recreating the past with Da Vinci's inventions

April 28th, 2008 · Comments Off · 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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