Leonardo, who posed as an artist-engineer on the line drawn from experimental tradition "mechanical" Tuscan "invented" the parachute ( "pavilion diaper blocked"), which, although present in the drawings of an anonymous engineer's Sienna fifteenth He ricondusse and piegò of his experiences of the flight "without beat of alie." Carried out studies of aerodynamics and aerostatica, intui that man, using a parachute large ( "it is 12 for arms and face high 12") and then be able to exert strong pressure on the air and to meet a considerable resistance, receive an adequate slowdown in its descent and avoid a ruinous impact on the ground, while gettandosi from considerable height: "gittarsi can of every great height sanza damage himself."
E. 1485. Atlantic Code