Dean Yeager: Your theories are the worst kind of popular tripe, your methods are sloppy, and your conclusions are highly questionable. You are a poor scientist,Dr. VenkmanDan Brown!
My thoughts exactly on the Da Vinci code. Let's see.
Leonardo Da Vinci:
Notebooks 1,565 pages
Dan Brown:
The Da Vinci code 464 pages
Leonardo Da Vinci:
Inventions
War Machines
- Armoured car
- Cannon with adjustable elevating arc
- Three-barrelled cannon
- Ogival projectiles
- Hull rammer
- Automatic hull rammer
- Giant cross-bow
- Multiple cross-bow
- Ballista for hurling stones
- Scythed chariot
- Firearm with an elevating gear adjustable by means of a peg blocking system
- Firearm with screw elevating gear
- Machine for storming walls
- Hoist for lifting cannons
- Eight-barrelled organ
- Ladder for besieging walls
- Automatic igniting device
- Split-trail gun carriage
- Breech-loading naval cannon
- Chain for automatic igniting device
- 33-barrelled organ
Flying Machines
- Aerial screw
- Device for testing beating wings
- Glider with manoeuvrable tips
- Flying ship
- Articulated wing
- Parachute
- Anemometer
- Anemoscope
- Flapping-wing machine with a vertical bearing
- Wing structure
- Inclinometer
- Wing-beating device with a screw and lead screw system
- Wing structure with adjustable tilt
- Leaf-spring engine for flying machine
Work Machines
- Self-propelled car
- Rollers for friction studies
- Pillar-lifting machine
- Pile driver
- Drilling machine
- Revolving crane
- Screwtongs
- Machine for threading screws
- Machines for making mirrors
- Machine for making ropes
- Winged spindle
- Teaselling machine
- Distiller with continuous cooling system
- Alembic
- Improved alembic
- Device for measuring the tensile strength of wires
- Pulleys
- Device for developing conical ducts
- Mechanical drum
- Study of a furnace
- Odometer
- Multiple-cylinder mill
- Machine for cutting files
- Machine for digging trenches
- Wheel for studies on the impossibility of perpetual motion
- Wheel with small iron balls for studies on the impossibility of perpetual motion
- Revolving crane
- Conducted-flame furnace
- Continuous teaseling machine
- Large drop-bottom crane
- Hygrometer
- hygrometer(2)
- Silk-doubling machine
- Goldforging hammer
- Rollers for friction studies
- Fan
- Threading tool
- Drive train device
- Device for wiredrawing on bearings
Water and Land Machines
- Sluice gate hatch
- Drop-down sluice gates
- Lagoon dredge
- Paddle boat
- Webbed glove
- Drop-bottom float
- Floats for walking on water
- Galata Bridge
- Fast-construction bridge
- Revolving bridge
- Boat with paddle wheels
- Hatch sluice gate for a navigable canal
- Diving bell
- Sea dredger
- Device for measuring water turning to steam
- Paddle-wheeled boat propulsion system
- Mobile-ram boat (assault battleship)
- Bilge pump
- Canal bridge with hatch sluice gates
- Temporary bridge on trestles
- Temporary bridge on a double row of trestles
- Deep-sea diving suit
- Double hull
- Auto-feed hydraulic saw
- Cutaway view of a cane
- Canal reinforcement gabion structure
- Shrouds cutter
Leonardo the Architect
- Ideal city
- Centrally-planned temple
- Centrally-planned temple with nine radiating chapels
- Corner of castle with triple defence system
- Centrally-planned temple with four cylindrical bell-towers
- Temple with a gemmated plan
- Curtain with semicircular salients – Detail No 1
- Curtain with semicircular salients – Detail No 2
- Curtain with semicircular salients – Detail No 3
- Moat with submerged defence system
- Ravelin or triangular bastion
- Mountain castle with two defence enceintes
- Angular tower with corbels
- Temple with five domes
And Dan Brown cracked the "code". A man of Leonardo's intellect creating a smarmy, trite, soap operatic "code" that sits undetected since 1519 until Dan Brown figures it out using discredited and debunked sources like Holy Blood, Holy Grail.
Does Dan Brown have some swamp land to sell too?
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