Da Vinci’s observations of soaring birds

• Philip Richardson ^[1]
  1. [1] Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

     Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

     Town of Falmouth, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Physics today, ISSN 0031-9228, Vol. 70, Nº. 11, 2017, págs. 78-79
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • More than half a millennium ago, the great polymath Leonardo da Vinci sketched and described a maneuver that birds use to extract energy from a gradient in wind speed.