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A Note About The Wall Of Leonardo DaVinci's Cannon Foundry

Nov 03, 2025
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There is a bombard on the left, inside the door of the shed, and cannonballs sized to fire from it. Already obsolete, its presence in this sketch by Leonardo da Vinci, the world’s most famous Renaissance man, seems a comment on the technological changes to artillery in his day. We are observing a military revolution in progress with da Vinci. Our visual…

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