Homo volans. Book illustration from Library of Congress
Summary
Print shows a man, wearing a large square-framed parachute, safely parachuting next to a building, presumably from which he has jumped off.
Illus. in: Machinæ novæ. Venetiis : [1615?].
Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 168.
Tags
Date
01/01/1615
Contributors
Veranzio, Fausto, 1551-1617.
Source
Library of Congress
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