Learning from Leonardo

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

When I decided to engage in an in-depth analysis of Leonardo da Vinci’s scientific works and to evaluate them from the perspective of our contemporary science, I found to my amazement that in many areas his research was so detailed and so technical that I could not evaluate it without the help of fellow scientists who are experts in those disciplines. I am especially grateful to the following:

to Ugo Piomelli for enlightening correspondence about fluid dynamics, for spending many hours helping me to analyze Leonardo’s drawings and descriptions of turbulent flows of water and air, and for critically reading my chapter on “The Movements of Water”;

to Mattia Sella for correspondence clarifying some technical terms of modern geology ...