The Parachute of Fauste Veranzio, 1617, (1887). Creator: Gaston Tissandier.
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The Parachute of Fauste Veranzio, 1617, (1887). The inventor Fauste Veranzio (Faust Vrancic) developed a parachute after studying Leonardo da Vinci's sketches of one. He tested it by jumping from a tower in Venice. Published in "History of Balloons" by Gaston Tissandier, Paris, 1887.
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Creator
- Gaston Tissandier, attributed to: French: Author
Subject
- Fauste Veranzio: Dalmatian, active in Venice: humanist, philosopher, historian, lexicographer, inventor
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Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 3723x4691
File Size : 51,166kb
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- B460815
- 0510006854
- 1-343-957
- 1343957
- B460815
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