Ann C. Pizzorusso to Speak at Science Museum of London, June 29
By: Christina Mancuso Jun. 27, 2016
"Tweeting Da Vinci" author Ann C. Pizzorusso will lecture at the Science Museum of London on June 29 in conjunction with their blockbuster exhibit "Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius." The museum will showcase Leonardo's talents as an inventor of a submarine, parachute, scuba diving equipment and a robot as well as being an excellent military architect, hydrologist, geologist and cartographer.
Pizzorusso will highlight Leonardo's inventions, many of which came to light in 1965 when his notebooks, lost for centuries, were discovered in Madrid. These texts revolutionized Leonardo studies as they proved he accurately described laws of hydrology and wave motion, projectile projection and vortex flow movement in the early 1500s. They are also a treasure trove of a majority of his mechanical inventions, showing detailed sketches of objects which might have been realized centuries before, had these notebooks come to light sooner. She will also discuss his role as military architect and cartographer and will show us why she thinks he was the originator of Twitter, Instagram and the Google Map. About the author: Ann C. Pizzorusso is a geologist and Italian Renaissance scholar. after many years of doing virtually everything in the world of geology (drilling for oil, hunting for gems, cleaning up pollution in soil and groundwater) she turned her geologic skills toward Leonardo da Vinci.Videos