Explore the Renaissance thinker, artist, and engineer through 30 accurately realized machine inventions, digitally restored artistic masterpieces, and 2 authentic pages from the Codex Atlanticus (500 years old!). | Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI)

Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus is the most extensive collection of his writings and drawings, encompassing 1,119 leaves that span his entire career from 1478 to 1519, covering engineering, anatomy, and artistic concepts. Folio 134 of the Codex Atlanticus is particularly notable for its exploration of mechanical principles, where da Vinci introduces terms such as “potentia” (energy), “weight” (potential energy), and “percussion” (kinetic energy), examining the behavior of forces in motion a