TITLE:
Archimedes, Vitruvius and Leonardo: The Odometer Connection
AUTHORS:
Massimo Callegari, Stefano Brillarelli, Cecilia Scoccia
KEYWORDS:
History of Machines, Mechanisms, Leonardo, Vitruvius, Archimedes, Odometer
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Historical Studies,
Vol.9 No.5,
December
8,
2020
ABSTRACT: A multimedia exhibition in Fano (I) in 2019
celebrated the tight links between Vitruvius and Leonardo on the 500th year
since Leonardo’s death. The authors realized an interactive animation of some
machines to let the visitors enjoy an immersive experience of the studies of
the great scholars of the past. They also took the opportunity to review the
history of the odometer and to study how Leonardo redesigned the concept of
Vitruvius. A few questions are still unanswered, but the search drove them back
to another great scientist of the past, Archimedes of Syracuse.