(September 19, 2017) Professor Plinio Innocenzi's lecture will be held in Chinese with Chinese translation on Thursday September 21 (from 6.30pm to 7.30pm) at the Auditorium of the Italian Cultural Institute in Beijing. At the center of the debate "Leonardo's dream of flight". Innocenzi, since August 2010 Director of Science and Technology of the Italian Embassy in Beijing, is Ordinary of Materials Science and Director of the Laboratory of Materials Science and Nanotechnologies (LMNT) of the University of Sassari. He is also Visiting Professor at the University of Osaka in Japan, at the University of Chemical Chemistry in Beijing and Honorary Professor at the Normal University of Luoyang. He graduated from Physics at the University of Padua and is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry. (Red)

ABOUT / FLIGHT, A DREAM

Throughout his life, Leonardo da Vinci never ceased to follow his most ambitious dream: human flight. Pursuing this goal, he designed an incredible number of magnificent flying machines that still draw our attention for their ability to anticipate modern flight systems. Leonardo was inspired by flying birds, to whom he devoted a specific study. Thanks to his careful observation of nature, he designed different types of flying solutions that later proved to be reliable and functional. On several pages of his notebooks, it is possible to find patterns of machines that imitate the flight of birds, but also sketches of gliders, parachutes, a prototype of a helicopter, as well as more exotic cars.