Episode 270: Leonardo and his flying machine

Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors

Heather Teysko

History

4.6 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Let's talk about the Renaissance dream of flight focusing on Leonardo da Vinci and his flying machine plans, and then how Tudor England may have reacted to those experiments. If you're flying this holiday season, think about Leonardo and his plans for flight as you're boarding. your plane. Join Patreon to get more episodes, ad-free episodes, minicourses, author chats, and more! https://www.patreon.com/englandcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, friend, and welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a part of the Agora
0:16.8	podcast network, and the original Tudor history podcast, telling stories of Tudor England since 2009.
0:24.2	I am your host, Heather, and I'm a storyteller who makes history accessible because I believe
0:28.7	it's a pathway to understanding who we are, our place in the universe, and being much more
0:33.5	deeply connected to our own humanity. So, this is episode 269. I don't even know why I say that
0:41.1	in the beginning anymore because I've clearly lost count. But we are going to talk about something
0:45.3	that is not directly related to Tudor England today, but something that I am fascinated with.
0:50.9	And because it's my podcast, I get to do that. And that is Leonardo da Vinci and his
0:55.8	flying machines. Because while it didn't happen in Tudor England, we're going to talk about
1:02.0	what the Tudors would have known of Leonardo da Vinci and his flying machines and how they would
1:08.6	have seen that and just how it was similar to the Renaissance spirit that was
1:15.9	taking over all of Europe at that time. So we're going to dig into that. A quick welcome to some of the
1:23.8	newest YouTube members. Welcome to Sugar and Jackie and Anna. If you're listening to
1:31.7	this on YouTube, you can always click join this channel to get extra content, minicasts,
1:37.4	author chats, mini audio courses, depending on what level you're at, all kinds of ways to
1:43.7	really immerse yourself in Tudor England.
1:47.0	So check that out. You can also join on Patreon to get basically the same stuff, and that is patreon.com
1:54.1	slash Englandcast. All right, let's get into it. Few names evoke the spirit of Renaissance innovation quite like Leonardo
2:04.6	Da Vinci. He was born in 1452, and his insatiable curiosity and unparalleled artistic talent made
2:12.6	him a polymath whose legacy stretches across disciplines. While he is best known for masterpieces like
2:20.4	the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, his notebooks reveal an ambitious, almost fantastical dream,
2:27.3	which is to conquer the skies. Long before the Wright brothers or hot air balloons, Leonardo
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